linux-kernel - Re: Registration Weakness in Linux Kernel's Binary formats

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 03 Oct 2006 18:28:24 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...l.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Registration Weakness in Linux Kernel's Binary formats

On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:59:54 PDT, Stephen Hemminger said:

> I looked at it, basically his argument which is all flowered up in pretty
> pictures and security vulnerability language is:
> 
>    If root loads a buggy module then the module can be used to compromise
>    the system.
> 
> Well isn't that surprising.

Big yawner.  Now if the claim had been that a properly buggy module, inserted
under a certain set of circumstances, got onto the binfmt list *even when the
process loading it wasn't root*, now *that* would be an exploit....

Content of type "application/pgp-signature" skipped