[23012] in bugtraq
Re: Flaws in recent Linux kernels
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Fischbacher)
Fri Oct 26 18:36:47 2001
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 13:29:41 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Fischbacher <Thomas.Fischbacher@Physik.Uni-Muenchen.DE>
To: Mariusz Woloszyn <emsi@ipartners.pl>
Cc: <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>
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> if (current->euid ==0 ) {
Hm. Let me think. ptrace is basically used to dig out problems. From the
philosophical point of view, if root ptraces, the program having problems
will run as root. This is a constellation that one might want to avoid.
It's certainly a good thing to be able to ptrace without being root.
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(lambda (n) ((lambda (p q r) (p p q r)) (lambda (g x y) V_/_
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