[28392] in bugtraq
Re: ps information leak in FreeBSD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Kelly)
Mon Jan 6 21:37:00 2003
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 15:19:36 -0600
From: Sean Kelly <smkelly@zombie.org>
To: Cache <cache@sowatech.com.pl>, security-officer@FreeBSD.org
Message-ID: <20030106211936.GA66238@edgemaster.zombie.org>
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On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 08:46:50PM +0000, Cache wrote:
> [cache@silent][ttyv1] ~> sysctl -a | grep show
> kern.ps_showallprocs: 0
> [cache@silent][ttyv1] ~> ps -auxwwwp 101
> USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
> root 101 0,0 0,2 1020 740 ?? Is 0:12 0:00,01 /usr/sbin/cron
I've been aware of this problem for a long time, and in fact I made a patch
against 4.6-STABLE which can be applied to correct it. I am not sure how
portable it will be to 4.7-STABLE, but I imagine it would work.
Please see the relevent FreeBSD PR:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dkern/42065
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