On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 02:00:42AM +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> 
> Hi Community!
> 
> updated the 1.2 (stable) branch to vs1.28, which
> includes two security improvements ...
> 
>  * the procfs is no longer vulnerable to arbitrary
>    modifications from inside a vserver

somehow I forgot to give credit to Veit Wahlich, who
reported the procfs issues, and will write an 
advisory regarding a possible DoS attack ...

sorry, wasn't intentional ...

best,
Herbert

>  * xattrib modifications of immutable files are
>    denied if CAP_IMMUTABLE is missing
> 
> nothing else has changed, but there is a patch for
> 2.4.27-rc2, which I would like to see tested, as
> the 2.4.27 kernel will be slightly different to
> 2.4.26 ...
> 
> note: the 2.4.26-fpu-state-fix patch avoids the
>       DoS discovered on 2.4.26, if you use that
>       version, make sure to apply it ...
> 
> enjoy,
> Herbert
> 
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