Re: Multiple OS kernel insecure handling of stdio file descriptor

[eugeny gladkih <john () drweb com>]

> > > > > "SP" == Shiva Persaud <shivapd () austin ibm com> writes:

> > XFOCUS team (http://www.xfocus.org/)  had discovered Multiple OS kernel
> > insecure handling of stdio file descriptor.
> >
> > ===================
> > Affected OS Version
> >
> > AIX 5.3

 SP> The AIX Security Team can be reached at security-alert () austin ibm com.

 SP> We have investigated this issue and AIX is not affected. A privileged
 SP> process will not inherit closed file descriptors for stdio, stdout and
 SP> stderr.

well, but what is used for stdout if it's closed in the parent
process just before fork(2) call?!

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