[Bug 486944] Re: Different permission denied errors

Sun Mar 7 13:57:23 UTC 2010

On 2010-03-07 Roger Leigh <rleigh at codelibre.net> wrote:
> [GnuTLS maintainers: I'd appreciate some input on this regarding gcrypt
> dropping root privs inappropriately, which causes massive breakage]

> original report came from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/schroot/+bug/486944

> On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 10:57:44AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
[...]
> at which point we go into libgcrypt and then the buggy setuid call
> comes from lock_pool in src/secmem.c:
[...]

Hello,
This seems to be basically the same issue as
<http://bugs.debian.org/566351> which was forwarded upstream and ended
with <http://mid.gmane.org/878wbju9is.fsf@vigenere.g10code.de>.

Also note that <http://bugs.debian.org/543941> makes gcrypt less than
optimal for nsswitch/pam-modules.

cu andreas