Re: Local root exploit with kmod and modutils > 2.1.121

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.UKuu.ORG.UK)
Date: Thu Nov 16 2000 - 12:19:45 EST

> It checks CAP_SYS_MODULE nowadays.
>
> Which does not look good by the way, it is function of request_module(),
> rather than of caller.

Only the caller knows if the data is tainted. Thus only the caller can decide

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