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 -Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201108090918.08245.sgr...@redhat.com