On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Brian Dean wrote:
> Resisting the temptation to cut-and-paste (resulting in the lost
> tabs), and incorporating your other suggestions, how about this
> version?
>
> Index: sysv_ipc.c
> ===
> RCS file: /usr00/mir
Bruce Evans wrote:
> It has too many style bugs for me. It corrupts all tabs to spaces and
> has some other style bugs.
Resisting the temptation to cut-and-paste (resulting in the lost
tabs), and incorporating your other suggestions, how about this
version?
Thanks,
-Brian
Index: sysv_ipc.c
===
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Brian Dean wrote:
> I believe the following patch does what you are asking. Essentially,
> it only calls suser() if it was about to return a permission error,
> thus the ASU flag should only be set when superuser privileges are
> actually used.
>
> Let me know if this looks
Bruce Evans wrote:
> It had rotted further since then (as half threatened in rev.1.9) to
> passing the process pointer so that it can mess up p->p_acflag. This
> results in the ASU flag always being set in p->p_acflag for root,
> although no special privilege is required for root to operate on ip
> -- Forwarded message --
> Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 21:03:22 -0500 (EST)
> From: Brian Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern sysv_ipc.c
>
> [SNIP - KK]
>
> The bug is very easily tested/verified: just create
4.0 had a security bug which would let any user EXCEPT root delete a SYSV
semaphore (the sense of a test was reversed). No other releases were
affected - rebuild your kernels if this is an issue. Good catch, Brian!
For "revision 1.8" in the below read "revision 1.9" (Jan 30, 1999).
-- Fo
