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From: "carlos at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>
To: glibc-bugs@sourceware.org
Subject: [Bug nptl/13347] Threaded setuid() can wrongly report success when failing to drop privileges
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 18:32:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bug-13347-131-pmY0KzACny@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bug-13347-131@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13347
--- Comment #8 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Rich Felker from comment #7)
> I'd like to apologize for not following up on this. I started looking into
> it back then, but I didn't feel comfortable enough with my understanding of
> the code to propose something at the time, and got sidetracked/busy with my
> own projects. Perhaps my input is more valuable discussing the issue and
> offering feedback on a patch someone else proposes than trying to work on
> the code myself.
That's fine. Feel free to unassign yourself. This is a hard problem to fix. IMO
it requires a new kernel syscall to do setxid in one shot pass or fail.
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-26 3:33 [Bug nptl/13347] New: " bugdal at aerifal dot cx
2012-03-17 20:38 ` [Bug nptl/13347] " bugdal at aerifal dot cx
2012-04-29 3:03 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx
2012-04-29 17:00 ` ppluzhnikov at google dot com
2012-07-24 14:52 ` carlos_odonell at mentor dot com
2012-07-24 14:56 ` fweimer at redhat dot com
2012-07-24 18:15 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx
2012-07-24 18:35 ` carlos_odonell at mentor dot com
2012-07-24 23:04 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx
2012-07-25 2:20 ` carlos_odonell at mentor dot com
2012-12-03 23:57 ` carlos at systemhalted dot org
2014-03-24 13:57 ` fweimer at redhat dot com
2014-03-24 15:19 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx
2014-03-24 18:32 ` carlos at redhat dot com [this message]
2014-04-01 10:13 ` cvs-commit at gcc dot gnu.org
2014-04-01 11:54 ` joseph at codesourcery dot com
2014-04-01 12:21 ` fweimer at redhat dot com
2014-04-01 12:21 ` cvs-commit at gcc dot gnu.org
2014-06-27 11:43 ` fweimer at redhat dot com
2014-06-27 13:15 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx
2014-07-09 10:26 ` fweimer at redhat dot com
2014-07-22 12:35 ` fweimer at redhat dot com
2014-07-22 12:57 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx
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