[4068] in bugtraq
Re: Coredumps and setuids .. interesting..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel O'Callaghan)
Wed Feb 19 01:58:52 1997
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 17:19:40 +1100
Reply-To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@PANDA.HILINK.COM.AU>
From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@PANDA.HILINK.COM.AU>
To: BUGTRAQ@netspace.org
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Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 21:45:56 -0800
From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To: Jason Fesler <jfesler@calweb.com>
Cc: security@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Coredumps and setuids .. interesting..
>I found this to be rather interesting.. I didn't realize
>that linux and solaris refused to core dump setuid programs.
>This could be a rather good thing should it find it's way
>into *bsd..
Hmmm. Either my replies aren't getting through to bugtraq, or people are
just ignoring them. As of FreeBSD 2.1.6 and newer versions, we don't core
dump for setuid processes. It's been this way for nearly a year in -current,
but the change didn't get merged into the 2.1.x branch until after the
2.1.5 release...that was an oversight.
-DG
David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
