[9727] in bugtraq
Re: [HERT] Advisory #002 Buffer overflow in lsof
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ronny Cook)
Mon Feb 22 13:58:16 1999
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 16:19:20 +1100
Reply-To: Ronny Cook <ronny@TMX.COM.AU>
From: Ronny Cook <ronny@TMX.COM.AU>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
der Mouse wrote:
>> on linux /dev/kmem is +w for gid kmem, on bsd too (probably, I didn't
>> checked that),
>
> I *think* this may even have been fixed back in the 4.3 days, but I
> can't recall for sure; that was too long ago.
- From a BSD/386 1.1 system (based on BSD 4.3):
$ ls -l /dev/kmem
crw-r----- 1 root kmem 2, 1 Feb 5 1994 /dev/kmem
The moral of this story is that we should be careful making unfounded
assumptions about other operating systems...
...Ronny
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