[parisc-linux] Security Hole in binfmt_som.c ?

[Joel Soete]

Alan Cox wrote:

>On Sad, 2003-08-30 at 14:15, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
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>>On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 02:42:37PM +0200, Ruediger Scholz wrote:
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>>>binfmt_som.c:216:2: #error "Fix security hole before enabling me"
>>>What's this message about?
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>>I don't know.  I wish someone would tell me.  You'd think they'd have the
>>decency to contact the person listed as the author at the top of the file.
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>Actually explanations were posted in the previous discussion on this on
>parisc-list.
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>Someone has to do the equivalent of the 2.4.22 binfmt_elf changes if
>neccessary so that another thread can't change the file handles or 
>steal the exec fd being passed to the loader.
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Yes Alan, it was: 
<http://lists.parisc-linux.org/pipermail/parisc-linux/2003-July/020386.html>

Sorry Willy I trusted that you read it (My bad next time I will advise 
you directly)

Joel