Re: Kernel fchown() exploit status?

[Manuel Arostegui Ramirez]

El Viernes 09 Julio 2004 11:46, Michael Buesch escribió:
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> Quoting Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxx>:
> > * Chris White (webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > > There was a recent security announcment regarding a vulnerability with
> > > the fchown function.
> > >
> > > Only a few distrobutions (red hat/suse) have fixed the issue, but I've
> > > yet to see a general patch for it.
> >
> > Patches are in both 2.4 and 2.6 bk trees.  2.4.27-rc3 has this fixed.
> > There hasn't been a 2.6.8-rc release since the patches went in to 2.6
>
> Is there an exploit available to test if the kernel has
> this vulnerability?

Look at this:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10662/exploit/
It says that it's not exploit requiered to exploit this bug.

Any ideas,  Chris White?

Cheers

 
-- 
Manuel Arostegui Ramirez #Linux Registered User 200896

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