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

[Alan Cox]

On Sad, 2003-08-30 at 14:15, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 02:42:37PM +0200, Ruediger Scholz wrote:
> > binfmt_som.c:216:2: #error "Fix security hole before enabling me"
> > What's this message about?
> 
> 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.

Actually explanations were posted in the previous discussion on this on
parisc-list.

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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