Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RFC/PATCH: Random pid generation | From | Krzysztof Halasa <> | Date | 13 Jan 2000 01:03:25 +0100 |
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"Sean Hunter" <sean@uncarved.co.uk> writes:
> You run your program, but I have created a simlink in /tmp with the > same name (because the name is guessable).
It is independent of PIDs being guessable or not. With really random PIDs you can still create link(s) in /tmp and after some number of tries you can win the race (especially when you can execute the suid program in question yourself).
32 bits would be some help here, but that doesn't fixes the problem, only makes you wait longer. -- Krzysztof Halasa Network Administrator
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