Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 4 Aug 1998 13:36:42 -0400 (EDT) | | From | Jon Lewis <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [SECURITY] suid procs exec'd with bad 0,1,2 fds |
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On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, David S. Miller wrote:
> However I still contend that this is an ass-backwards way to fix > bugs in software.
That may be...but it definitely works and adds and extra line of defense against unknown or unfixed buffer overflow exploits. It helped me catch the guy using the vsyslog libc overflow, and stopped him from getting root again.
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