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Re: More security issues
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 10:06:53PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> >today. E.g. your observation that RevertToSelf() could be dropped,
> >probably.
>
> I am still looking at that. On 2001-10-31 you added RevertToSelf() in
> dtable.cc (dtable::vfork_child_dup). Do you remember why?
Yes! It's very important. Without that RevertToSelf(), the
process has no access to it's own open socket handles if a setuid()
has been called before. Go figure!
Corinna
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