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Date:      Thu, 26 Aug 1999 14:04:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:      dima@best.net (Dima Ruban)
To:        dg@root.com
Cc:        dima@best.net, imp@village.org (Warner Losh), gsutter@pobox.com (Gregory Sutter), security-officer@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [secure@FREEBSD.LUBLIN.PL: FreeBSD (and other BSDs?) local root explot]
Message-ID:  <199908262104.OAA97706@burka.rdy.com>
In-Reply-To: <199908262056.NAA03100@implode.root.com> from David Greenman at "Aug 26, 1999 01:56:29 pm"

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David Greenman writes:
>    Yikes, you're not proposing that we disable following of symlinks that
> point to binaries, are you?

I'm sorry? I'm not sure I've got your question ...
What binaries? This patch prevents coredumps to follow symlinks, that's it.
Or is there a side effect?

> 
> -DG
> 

-- dima


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