Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 09:38:44 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Nathan Lawson <nlawson@kdat.csc.calpoly.edu> Cc: marcs@znep.com (Marc Slemko), freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/1805: Bug in ftpd Message-ID: <199610151638.JAA02562@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Oct 1996 08:53:38 PDT." <199610151553.IAA28499@kdat.calpoly.edu>
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>one instance of this attack, preventing core dumps. It is trivial to get >around it by using ptrace to attach to the process and read the memory >containing the encrypted passwords. At least in FreeBSD, you can't use ptrace-attach on a process that has changed its uid. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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