Re: Possible security hole? [was: verify_area(...) possible problem]

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 19 Apr 1999 16:30:45 +0200

Pavel Machek wrote:
> This is old news. I even did a patch: [hopefully noone uses 386's for
> multiuser shell servers :-)] . But still it is a bug. I think it
> should be fixed.

Oh, I was hoping the patch would actually fix the behaviour, rather than
turning off clone :-)

> I do have 386. If you post me nice .c program, I'll happily test it
> for you. [What about duplicating it by forcing kernel to think it has
> old 386. That should work - 486+ all backward compatible after all.]

Unfortunately 486s are not backward compatible in this regard.

-- Jamie

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