From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre.Humblet@ieee.org>
Cc: cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: More security issues
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 15:54:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020223231938.Q23094@cygbert.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020222220653.007e8450@pop.ne.mediaone.net>
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 10:06:53PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> >today. E.g. your observation that RevertToSelf() could be dropped,
> >probably.
>
> I am still looking at that. On 2001-10-31 you added RevertToSelf() in
> dtable.cc (dtable::vfork_child_dup). Do you remember why?
Yes! It's very important. Without that RevertToSelf(), the
process has no access to it's own open socket handles if a setuid()
has been called before. Go figure!
Corinna
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-23 22:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-10 11:34 Pierre A. Humblet
2002-02-12 7:57 ` Corinna Vinschen
2002-02-13 0:41 ` Pierre A. Humblet
2002-02-13 12:50 ` Pierre A. Humblet
2002-02-14 1:13 ` Corinna Vinschen
2002-02-22 20:41 ` Pierre A. Humblet
2002-02-23 15:54 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2002-03-03 19:05 ` Pierre A. Humblet
2002-03-05 0:57 ` Corinna Vinschen
2002-03-05 11:21 ` Pierre A. Humblet
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