lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:37:54 +0200 From: Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@...ormatik.uni-tuebingen.de> To: Brent Casavant <bcasavan@....com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: O_NOLINK for open() Brent Casavant <bcasavan@....com> writes: > My (limited) understanding of ptrace is that a parent-child > relationship is needed between the tracing process and the traced > process (at least that's what I gather from the man page). This > does give cause for concern, and I might have to see what can be > done to alleviate this concern. I fully realize that making this > design completely unassilable is a fools errand, but closing off > as many attack vectors as possible seems prudent. No relationship needed: strace -p <pid> MfG Goswin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists