[Leaplist] major bug found in Linux to give root access tountrustedusers...

[Bryan J Smith]

Select WINE apps may not run then.  Anything that needs access
to page 0 would run into issuesm. DOSEmu and others may also
be affected by lack of access when running non-root.  It really
depends on the Windows app and how horrendous it is written.

Ironically this continues to tell a major story of the default attitudes
of Linux and Windows, and how Windows is not held to the same
standard as Linux.  Windows apps often require "interesting" access,
even Microsoft's own apps and their own libraries.  This continues
to be a bane of WINE as well.

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-----Original Message-----
From: "Craig \"Fuzzy\" Conner" <fuznacious at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 17:45:15 
To: leaplist<leaplist at leap-cf.org>
Subject: [Leaplist] major bug found in Linux to give root access tountrusted
	users...

> Pretty much the only systems that seem to be affected
> are those that have WINE installed and if the package
> reconfigures the tunable when it is installed.

Using Fedora 11's stock 2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i586 and wine-1.1.29...  Both
from Fedora repos, and:

[~]$ sysctl -n vm.mmap_min_addr
65536

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