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    tty: Prevent untrappable signals from malicious program · 4324af6a
    Peter Hurley authored
    commit 37480a05685ed5b8e1b9bf5e5c53b5810258b149 upstream.
    
    Commit 26df6d13
    
     ("tty: Add EXTPROC support for LINEMODE")
    allows a process which has opened a pty master to send _any_ signal
    to the process group of the pty slave. Although potentially
    exploitable by a malicious program running a setuid program on
    a pty slave, it's unknown if this exploit currently exists.
    
    Limit to signals actually used.
    
    Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
    Cc: Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>
    Cc: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
    Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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