Subject: Re: Addition to force open to open only regular files
To: NetBSD Kernel Technical Discussion List <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/30/2000 22:23:03
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On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 03:52:14PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> Yeah, but buffer overflow exploits are successful exclusively because
> the code that suffers them still has set-ID privileges.

No. They are successful as the set ID because the code has set-ID priviliges.
They are still successfull to get control over the original ID for non-setid
programs.

	-is

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