[lug] Linux sysctl() Kernel Memory Reading Vulnerability

[John Karns]

On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, D. Stimits said:

> John Karns wrote:
> > 
> > Don't you also have add a record / line to /etc/modules.conf (or is it
> > conf.modules...) in reference to the module before running depmod?
> > 
> 
> Only needed if the module requires parameters to be passed to it. E.G.,
> joystick modules might need base address, or ethernet cards might need a
> parameter. I didn't see anywhere that these particular modules used
> special parameters, but I didn't look that closely for it either...they
> could require it, but I don't think they do in this case.

My understanding is that there are two additional reasons:

1) To enable auto loading (maybe obsolete since the auto-loading mechanism
was changed?)

2) to specify module dependencies where chronological loading is necessary

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John Karns                                              jkarns at csd.net