Bug#663249: [Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#663249: acpid: fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, O_NONBLOCK) should be fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK)

2012-03-22 Thread Michael Meskes
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 09:50:53PM +0100, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: Yes, the problem is still unfixed in Squeeze. However, It was only fixed along with the more serious issues in the powerbtn.sh script the the privilege escalation due to the incorrect umask and didn't warrant an update on

Bug#663249: [Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#663249: acpid: fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, O_NONBLOCK) should be fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK)

2012-03-21 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:06:53AM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:28:14PM +0100, Luciano Bello wrote: Is it a security problem? Well, define security problem. The apparently wrong patch came into the package in a security release and was supposed to fix a security

Bug#663249: [Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#663249: acpid: fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, O_NONBLOCK) should be fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK)

2012-03-14 Thread Ted Felix
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:28:14PM +0100, Luciano Bello wrote: Is it a security problem? Given that F_SETFD != F_SETFL, I would say that this is a security problem. A userspace program can cause acpid to stop processing by blocking on a socket. Ted. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#663249: [Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#663249: acpid: fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, O_NONBLOCK) should be fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK)

2012-03-13 Thread Michael Meskes
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:28:14PM +0100, Luciano Bello wrote: Is it a security problem? Well, define security problem. The apparently wrong patch came into the package in a security release and was supposed to fix a security problem. Now with the patch being incomplete I doubt the problem is

Bug#663249: [Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#663249: acpid: fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, O_NONBLOCK) should be fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK)

2012-03-12 Thread Michael Meskes
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 09:02:16PM +0100, Stevie Trujillo wrote: Package: acpid Version: 1:2.0.7-1squeeze3 Severity: normal From the Debian patch: --- acpid-2.0.7.orig/sock.c +++ acpid-2.0.7/sock.c @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ if (creds.uid != 0) { non_root_clients++;

Bug#663249: [Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#663249: acpid: fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, O_NONBLOCK) should be fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK)

2012-03-12 Thread Luciano Bello
On Monday 12 March 2012, Michael Meskes wrote: Question to secur...@debian.org, how do we handle this? Update as security update? Is it a security problem? Otherwise: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers- reference/pkgs.html#upload-stable Cheers, -luciano -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email