I have same problem on mandriva 2006 when i tray to start vdr On 7/10/06, Sebastian Kemper <sebaIstian_ml@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > I installed kernel 2.6.16.24 lately and get this warning when starting > vdr. The same should happen with 2.6.17.4 since both share the same > Changelog: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.17.4 > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.24 > > And I quote: > "During security research, Red Hat discovered a behavioral flaw in core > dump handling. A local user could create a program that would cause a > core file to be dumped into a directory they would not normally have > permissions to write to. This could lead to a denial of service (disk > consumption), or allow the local user to gain root privileges." > > So I was wondering if you could adapt vdr's dumpfile > handling to the new situation and put the changes in vdr-1.4.2 in order > to get rid of the warning, please. > > Thank you > Sebastian > > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/attachments/20060710/f07c41bb/attachment.htm
