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On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 10:06 AM Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 11/03/2022 17:06, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > Is this related to the 'dirty pipe' vulnerability that has been in the |
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> > news of late and has gotten patched in most distros in the last few |
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> > days? |
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> In one of the discussions about the patch, it was mentioned that "a |
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> couple of CVEs would have never happened" if this had been the default |
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> to begin with. So, probably yes? |
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My Kubuntu system is set to '1' but Ubuntu released a patchset for 15 |
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CVEs including the dirty pipe and I didn't even know about this |
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feature before this news so I have no idea if this was just changed |
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here but I suspect it was. I'm on a much older kernel than most of you |
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guys. |
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To me the overriding idea of not letting any user, including root, |
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mess around in a pipe makes logical sense, but as the OP has showed I |
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guess there were valid uses for this feature pre-patch, and it seems |
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that a user can override the feature by setting some bits if they need |
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to and really think they know what they are doing. |
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Thanks for the response, |
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Mark |
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