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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:42:31 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@...nel.sg>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@...il.com>
Subject: Re: CVE request - kernel: btrfs: prevent users from
 setting ACLs on files 	they do not own

On 06/12/2010 04:32 AM, Dan Rosenberg wrote:
> Shi Weihua discovered that btrfs did not check ownership of files
> before setting ACLs, allowing any user to set ACLs for any file,
> completely bypassing all file permissions.  This wasn't reported as a
> security issue, but it seems pretty serious to me (for those who use
> btrfs).  See http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/17/544 for his original post.

Thanks, please use CVE-2010-2071.

Eugene
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