Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 16:16:25 -0500 From: D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Cc: security at FreeBSD <freebsd-security@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Q about FreeBSD-SA-02:23.stdio Message-ID: <20020422161625.A1046@sheol.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20020422203216.GR38320@elvis.mu.org>; from bright@mu.org on Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 01:32:16PM -0700 References: <20020422151956.A919@sheol.localdomain> <20020422203216.GR38320@elvis.mu.org>
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On Apr 22, at 01:32 PM, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>
> * D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com> [020422 13:27] wrote:
> > Hello All.
> >
> > Received this SA today, and I have but four questions:
> >
> > - Is this really only a kernel re-build and install thang?
> > - Shouldn't filedesc.h be copied to /usr/include/sys?
>
> Doesn't matter.
As in, "No userland app should/will need/use the new prototype."?
Would 'installworld' move it to /usr/include/sys?
> > - libc (and therefore userland) really isn't involved at all?
> > - 'keyinit' was used as an example, but the hole is
> > just in the kernel?
>
> There's no hole in the kernel, this patch basically puts seatbelts
> in the kernel to protect against a very easy to make mistake.
Ah. Alrighty then.
> -Alfred
Dave
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