Re: question about /proc/<PID>/mem in 2.4 (fwd)

[Alan Cox]

On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 04:15:49PM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote:
> The setuidapp will see the shell's memory.  In general, a app, setuid or
> not, should make no assumption that any open fd's handed to it at birth
> were opened using the same priviledges that the app itself has.


Now think about "exec suidapp < ..." thats more fun

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