Re: [HERT] Advisory #002 Buffer overflow in lsof

[ronny () TMX COM AU (Ronny Cook)]

der Mouse wrote:
> > on linux /dev/kmem is +w for gid kmem, on bsd too (probably, I didn't
> > checked that),
>
> I *think* this may even have been fixed back in the 4.3 days, but I
> can't recall for sure; that was too long ago.

- From a BSD/386 1.1 system (based on BSD 4.3):

$ ls -l /dev/kmem
crw-r-----  1 root  kmem    2,   1 Feb  5  1994 /dev/kmem

The moral of this story is that we should be careful making unfounded
assumptions about other operating systems...

                ...Ronny
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