From owner-freebsd-security Fri Jan 28 8:35:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from roma.coe.ufrj.br (roma.coe.ufrj.br [146.164.53.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49F5915CBD for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 08:35:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonny@jonny.eng.br) Received: (from jonny@localhost) by roma.coe.ufrj.br (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA33181; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 14:32:38 -0200 (EDT) (envelope-from jonny) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 14:32:38 -0200 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Peter Wemm , Mike Tancsa , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fwd: *BSD procfs vulnerability Message-ID: <20000128143238.B31737@roma.coe.ufrj.br> References: <20000124103441.D88561C03@overcee.netplex.com.au> <21984.948712872@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <21984.948712872@critter.freebsd.dk>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 12:21:12PM +0100 X-Quote: What are you looking for in my mail headers ? X-Operating-System: FreeBSD X-URL: http://www.jonny.eng.br Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Somebody told me that Poul-Henning Kamp said: > In message <20000124103441.D88561C03@overcee.netplex.com.au>, Peter Wemm writes > : > >Mike Tancsa wrote: > >> > >> > >> What are the implications on unmounting procfs ? > > > >Under -current, practically nothing. Under 3.x, ps(1) won't work right. > >I'm not sure about gdb(1), it seems to use ptrace(2) these days. > > I belive killall needs a minor fix to use ps(1)... What about substituting killall by skill (in ports) ? Jonny -- João Carlos Mendes Luís jonny@jonny.eng.br Networking Engineer jcml@ieee.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message