full-disclosure - Re: Multiple OS kernel insecure handling of stdio file descriptor

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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:19:32 -0600
From: Shiva Persaud <shivapd@...tin.ibm.com>
To: XFOCUS Security Team <security@...cus.org>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Multiple OS kernel insecure handling of stdio
	file descriptor

On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:21:52PM +0800, XFOCUS Security Team wrote:
> 
> XFOCUS team (http://www.xfocus.org/)  had discovered Multiple OS kernel
> insecure handling of stdio file descriptor.
> 
> ===================
> Affected OS Version
> 
> AIX 5.3

The AIX Security Team can be reached at security-alert@...tin.ibm.com.

We have investigated this issue and AIX is not affected. A privileged
process will not inherit closed file descriptors for stdio, stdout and
stderr.

Thanks,
Shiva Persaud

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Shiva Persaud / AIX Security Development

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