On Sat, Feb, 2001, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Chris Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > There exists a Linux system call sysctl() which is used to query and
> > modify runtime system settings. Unprivileged users are permitted to query
> > the value of many of these settings.
>
> The following trivi
'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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 02:43:38PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 10:28:01AM +0100, Flori
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.
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On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 10:28:01AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > There exists a Linux system call sysctl() which is used to query and
> > modify runtime system settings. Unprivileged users are permitted to query
> > the value of many of these settings.
> It appears that all current Linux kernel
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On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Chris Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > There exists a Linux system call sysctl() which is used to query and
> > modify runtime system settings. Unprivileged users are permitted to query
> > the val
Chris Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There exists a Linux system call sysctl() which is used to query and
> modify runtime system settings. Unprivileged users are permitted to query
> the value of many of these settings.
It appears that all current Linux kernel version (2.2.x and 2.4.x) are
Hi,
OVERVIEW
There exists a Linux system call sysctl() which is used to query and
modify runtime system settings. Unprivileged users are permitted to query
the value of many of these settings.
The unprivileged user passes in a buffer location and the length of this
buffer. Unfortunately, by spe