Subject: Re: [Coverity] Untrusted user data in kernel

From: Bill Davidsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:47:37 -0500

James Morris wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 
> 
>>James Morris wrote:
>>
>>
>>>This at least needs CAP_NET_ADMIN.
>>>
>>
>>It is already checked in do_ip6t_set_ctl(). Otherwise anyone could
>>replace iptables rules :)
> 
> 
> That's what I meant, you need the capability to do anything bad :-)

Are you saying that processes with capability don't make mistakes? This 
isn't a bug related to untrusted users doing privileged operations, it's 
a case of using unchecked user data.

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