linux/Documentation/laptops
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh b525c06cdb thinkpad-acpi: lock down video output state access
Given the right combination of ThinkPad and X.org, just reading the
video output control state is enough to hard-crash X.org.

Until the day I somehow find out a model or BIOS cut date to not
provide this feature to ThinkPads that can do video switching through
X RandR, change permissions so that only processes with CAP_SYS_ADMIN
can access any sort of video output control state.

This bug could be considered a local DoS I suppose, as it allows any
non-privledged local user to cause some versions of X.org to
hard-crash some ThinkPads.

Reported-by: Jidanni <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2010-02-25 22:22:22 -03:00
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00-INDEX laptops: move laptop-mode.txt to Documentation/laptops/ 2008-03-12 02:37:21 -04:00
acer-wmi.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
asus-laptop.txt asus-laptop: document the module 2009-08-28 15:21:13 -04:00
disk-shock-protection.txt ata: Add documentation for hard disk shock protection interface (v3) 2008-10-13 21:39:50 +02:00
laptop-mode.txt laptops: move laptop-mode.txt to Documentation/laptops/ 2008-03-12 02:37:21 -04:00
sony-laptop.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
sonypi.txt sonypi - Move sonypi.txt to Documentation/laptops 2008-02-09 04:15:53 -05:00
thinkpad-acpi.txt thinkpad-acpi: lock down video output state access 2010-02-25 22:22:22 -03:00