Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: /proc/*/mem and mmap() security hole? | From | Benny Amorsen <> | Date | 09 Jan 1998 03:12:39 +0100 |
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>>>>> "AP" == Andrej Presern <andrejp@luz.fe.uni-lj.si> writes:
AP> It makes me wonder if there is a way a process can prevent some AP> other process from accessing any of its address space. Not being AP> able to do so would open up a potential security hole that would AP> enable the superuser to extract the information that is supposed AP> to stay private by mmap()ing the address space of an intresting AP> process into its own and examining (and possibly modifying) it.
Would people please stop trying to protect a unix system from root? Root can patch the kernel on the fly to get around any "protection".
Benny
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