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Bugtraq Archives: Re: BUG? Non-root user can configure traffic

Re: BUG? Non-root user can configure traffic shaper (2.2.13) (fwd)


Subject: Re: BUG? Non-root user can configure traffic shaper (2.2.13) (fwd)
From: Alan Cox (alanLXORGUK.UKUU.ORG.UK)
Date: Mon Dec 27 1999 - 18:41:45 CST


> Non-root users can change the SPEED of shaped interface. I.e., usual user
> can run "shapecfg speed shaper0 XXX" with success result. In my case
> non-root user increases speed of shaped interface to my proxy server. Yep,
> NO ANY suid's on `which shapecfg`. It's has 0755 permission.
>

This was reported a while ago and is already fixed in 2.2.14pre. Pick up the
patch from that to drivers/net/shaper.c. It is the only change needed.

Alan



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