Date:         Tue, 28 Dec 1999 00:41:45 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@LXORGUK.UKUU.ORG.UK>
Subject:      Re: BUG? Non-root user can configure traffic shaper (2.2.13) (fwd)
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM

> Non-root users can change the SPEED of shaped interface. I.e., usual user
> can run "shapecfg speed shaper0 XXX" with success result. In my case
> non-root user increases speed of shaped interface to my proxy server. Yep,
> NO ANY suid's on `which shapecfg`. It's has 0755 permission.
>

This was reported a while ago and is already fixed in 2.2.14pre. Pick up the
patch from that to drivers/net/shaper.c. It is the only change needed.

Alan