Re: 2.2.0 SECURITY

Marek Habersack (grendel@vip.net.pl)
Wed, 27 Jan 1999 18:50:22 +0100 (EET)


On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, pacman wrote:

> David S. Miller writes the following:
> >I think the condition here is if a program with ./core open core's
> >itself, we can do something stupid, so even libc5 can't save you here
> >:-)
>
> Hmm...
>
> cp core notcore
> ldd notcore
> *crash*
>
> The last thing printed is "free_one_pmd: bad directory entry"... I didn't
> catch the address that followed but I will next time.
Just my 2 cents. Couldn't reproduce the bug on PMMX/150, 32MB RAM,
2.2.0-final, ldd 1.9.10 from ldso-1.9.10-1 (debian/potato)

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