On 27/07/06, Sébastien Bernard <[email protected]> wrote:
[email protected] a écrit :
> I got a perfectly workable kernel 2.6.17.1 using mkinitramfs on my U60.
>
> Can you shed some lights on this dark corner of linux ?
>
> Seb
I can't shed any more light on it, but I can look too :o)
The original mailing of the patch to the list is below:
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0607.1/1694.html
[snip>
The prctl() system call should never allow to set "dumpable" to the
value 2. Especially not for non-privileged users.
This can be split into three cases:
1) running as root -- then core dumps will already be done as root,
and so prctl(PR_SET_DUMPABLE, 2) is not useful
2) running as non-root w/setuid-to-root -- this is the debatable case
3) running as non-root w/setuid-to-non-root -- then you definitely
do NOT want "dumpable" to get set to 2 because you have the
privilege escalation vulnerability
<snip]
Is it that something else is misbehaving and trying to dump core as root?
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