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SubjectRe: ptrace and setuid problem
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Tom Horsley <tomhorsley@adelphia.net> writes:

> If I exec a setuid program under ptrace, I can read the image via
> PEEKDATA requests.

Only CAP_SYS_PTRACE capable processes get suid/sgid semantics under
ptrace, or can attach to a privileged processes.

Andreas.

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