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Bug 115823

Summary:	CAN-2004-0010 ncpfs hole (unsupported)
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	3.0	CC:	petrides, riel
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Description Mark J. Cox 2004-02-16 13:55:05 UTC

Arjan van de Ven discovered a flaw in ncp_lookup() in ncpfs that could
allow local privilege escalation. ncpfs is only used to allow a system
to mount volumes of NetWare servers or print to NetWare printers. 

Affects: 3

Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2004-02-16 13:55:32 UTC

Note: only in kernel-unsupported

Comment 5 Jeff Moyer 2004-02-24 14:58:14 UTC

This change has been committed to the taroon pool, and will appear in
internal kernel version 2.4.21-9.12.EL.

Comment 6 John Flanagan 2004-05-12 01:08:35 UTC

An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. 
This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen 
this bug report if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-188.html