[373] in bugtraq
Re: /dev/tcp, and a LD_LIBRARY_PATH question.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Casper Dik)
Tue Dec 6 04:50:28 1994
To: ken@zeus.ST.3Com.COM (Ken Descoteaux)
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Dec 1994 09:06:20 EST."
<9412051406.AA11045@venus.st.3com.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 1994 09:40:42 +0100
From: Casper Dik <casper@fwi.uva.nl>
>> LD_PRELOAD works as described, though the source says its not to be documented
>
>Of course the source says not to document it. Its a major security hole and as
>we know, security holes are hushed up.
>
>-ken
LD_PRELOAD is no more of a security hole than LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Besides, it *is* documented in Solaris 2.x:
LD_PRELOAD
A list of shared objects that are to be interpreted by
the dynamic linker at run time. The specified shared
objects are linked in after the program being executed
and before any other shared objects that the program
references.
