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Date:      Sun, 10 Aug 1997 10:34:50 -0700
From:      Sean Eric Fagan <sef@Kithrup.COM>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fix for the PROCFS security hole!
Message-ID:  <199708101734.KAA17222@kithrup.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970810101530.7449B-100000.kithrup.freebsd.hackers@server.local.sunyit.edu>

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In article <Pine.BSF.3.96.970810101530.7449B-100000.kithrup.freebsd.hackers@server.local.sunyit.edu> you write:
>I'm not to sure how to do it, but IF the procfs system could be modified
>to somehow act like the /dev/tty* system, where the second a user
>logs on the device is then owned by them and all other users access is
>revoked.  This could work that a setuid proc when exec'd, procfs would
>automatically change permissions on it so that it is untainable.

The solution I'm working on right now (which I've had in mind for a while)
was to have procfs return an error when doing any I/O to a process which has
ever changed id's, unless (of course) the calling process is root.




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