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pstat security

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Thu Jun 14 06:13:52 1990

To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 90 06:09:45 EDT
From: John Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>


pstat -u appears to allow you to read an arbitrary page from /dev/mem.

There is no checking within the program for valid arguments to '-u'.
It is questionable whether this option should be allowed at all for a
user other than root.

pstat -u doesn't work as advertised on the RT anyway.


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