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Re: Linux kernel sysctl() vulnerability

From: Joost Pol2 <nohican () BADCODING ORG>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 02:32:00 +0100

'Night all,

Should this not be fixed in copyout/copyin instead?

It probarly occurs at other places instead of sysctl as well.

Kind regards,
Joost Pol alias Nohican (nohican () root66 org)
:wq

On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 02:43:38PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:

On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 10:28:01AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:


The following trivial patch should fix this issue.


Here's the patch that Alan accepted and put into 2.2.18-pre9 to fix this
problem.

greg k-h

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