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From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org, fweimer@redhat.com, carlos@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] getaddrinfo: Fix use after free in getcanonname (CVE-2023-4806)
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 06:24:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f6867bc3-debd-2788-355f-4b1da1a53990@sourceware.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mvma5tpvz9w.fsf@suse.de>

On 2023-09-14 06:12, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Sep 14 2023, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> 
>> AFAICT, all container tests run as root within the container.
> 
> That's not what test-container implies, AFAICS.
> 
>> I can add su in the script file to make it explicit,
> 
> Why would that option exist if it is a no-op?
> 

OK, so what seems to be happening here is that files in the container 
(at least the few I've tested right now) are owned by the executing 
user, so there's actually no need to run as root to modify them, which 
explains why the test works.

I've sent v3 anyway to make it kosher in case we end up fixing this in 
future.

Thanks,
Sid

  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-14 10:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-13 17:36 [PATCH] " Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-09-13 19:03 ` Florian Weimer
2023-09-13 20:56 ` [PATCH v2] " Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-09-14  8:37   ` Andreas Schwab
2023-09-14  9:48     ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-09-14  9:55       ` Andreas Schwab
2023-09-14  9:57         ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-09-14 10:00           ` Andreas Schwab
2023-09-14 10:06             ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-09-14 10:12               ` Andreas Schwab
2023-09-14 10:24                 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar [this message]
2023-09-14 10:13 ` [PATCH v3] " Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-09-14 10:53   ` Florian Weimer
2023-09-14 11:27     ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-09-14 22:52   ` Carlos O'Donell
2023-09-15 18:41 ` [COMMITTED] " Siddhesh Poyarekar

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