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Re: PS Information Leak on HP True64 Alpha OSF1 v5.1 1885


From: Andrea Purificato - bunker <bunker () fastwebnet it>
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 18:34:39 +0100

Alle 21:05, martedì 6 febbraio 2007, hai scritto:

I would guess the behavior you just discovered has been
known for a long time.

It doesn't mean that things will always be that way :-)
See here: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102215-1

PS: Why should ps to work correctly without the setuid bit?

because all recent "ps" works without it, and remove bit from executable is 
not a workaround in this case.
Maybe it's time to abandon the stone age :-)


Bye,
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