Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-23,: Re: Linux 2.2.16

# Re: Linux 2.2.16

Christopher McCrory (chrismcc@netus.com)
Fri, 09 Jun 2000 10:36:37 -0700

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Hello...

Alan Cox wrote:
>
> Linux 2.2.16 security release
>
> The following security problems are fixed by this release
>
> o Setuid applications. even when correctly checking for failures of
> setuid() calls could fail to drop priviledges if the invoker had
> made certain adjustments to the capability sets
>

I didn't see this infomation stated anywhere. When was this code
introduced?
Does it effect all 2.2.x ? 2.3.x ? 2.0.x ?
TIA

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