Messages in this thread | | | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [SECURITY] suid procs exec'd with bad 0,1,2 fds | Date | Tue, 4 Aug 1998 23:25:49 -0400 (EDT) |
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brandon s. allbery writes: > In message <199808041827.OAA18688@jupiter.cs.uml.edu>, "Albert D. Cahalan"
> | OS/390 does something like that, even for non-setuid processes. > | (no problems either: OS/390 is UNIX) So gcc could be hacked. > > On which planet? OS/390 is a cross of MVS and VM; it has a POSIX > compatibility layer, but its guts are *not* Unix-like.
"OS/390 Version 1 Release 2 is a a certified UNIX system, having achieved X/Open's XPG4 UNIX Profile Brand."
That's better than we can say. As for the "guts", who cares? It could be a microkernel written in FORTRAN and still be unix.
It should be clear now that vulnerability to stack smashing is not a unix requirement.
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