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SubjectRe: LINUX 2.2 SECURITY: more clues
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> Hello guys,
>
> The infamous "ldd core" problem seems to only occur under the following
> circumstances:
>
> 1. the core file is fresh - i.e. you run your cor.c program and then
> immediately do ldd core.
>
> 2. More importantly than 1., it happens when there is some swap space
> in use - and does not happen when 0 bytes of swap are in use.
>
> Keep looking and you shall find (for there is nothing hidden that shall
> not be revealed).

And these are both FALSE. Keep looking harder ;-).

I tried it on a UP Celeron 300A. Swap was mounted but not in use and the
core file was from January 10. The machine instantly rebooted under both
-pre9 and the real 2.2.0.

later,
chris

--
Chris Ricker kaboom@gatech.edu
chris.ricker@m.cc.utah.edu


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