Kernel security issue.

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Dec 31 23:21:52 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 03:45, Johnny Strom wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> It seems that there is a security issue in the kernel,
> I don't know if RH 7.x kernels are effected.
> 
> Here is more info and a patch:
> 
> http://www.hardrock.org/kernel/current-updates/duplicate-pid-fix-2.4.23.patch
> 
> 

So is your contention that someone could:

1. exhaust all pids
2. run a program that would never be able to be killed

>From reading the explanation that is the only way this could be seen as
a security issue. Even so it seems like a pretty obscure one.

-sv






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