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Re: FreeBSD (and other BSDs?) local root explot

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ollivier Robert)
Wed Sep 1 02:03:27 1999

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In-Reply-To:  <199908271534.JAA27164@xerxes.cs.colorado.edu>; from Todd C.
              Miller on Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 09:34:11AM -0600

According to Todd C. Miller:
> that one of the FreeBSD guys was recently working on incorporating
> changes from the OpenBSD fts.c.  I don't see the relevant change in
> FreeBSD-current though.

It has been committed to all three branches, 4.0-CURRENT, 3.2-STABLE and
even 2.2-STABLE.

dima        1999/08/29 10:53:19 PDT

  Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_2_2)
    sys/kern             kern_ktrace.c kern_sig.c vfs_syscalls.c
                         vfs_vnops.c
    sys/sys              fcntl.h
  Log:
  Don't follow symlinks on coredumps and ktrace.

  Reviewed and suggested by:    bde

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