On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 09:18:07AM -0400, Steve Grubb wrote: > On Sunday, August 07, 2011 01:34:38 PM dann frazier wrote: > > This was reported by Christian Ohm at: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=632923 > > > > The perf command, provided as part of the Linux kernel source, looks > > for and honors configuration settings in ./config. A local user could > > obtain elevated privileges by convincing a superuser to run the perf > > command from a directory the user controls. > > And in recent kernels has an executable stack: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=704296
fyi, that bug appears to be locked -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
