Subject: Re: OpenBSD bug (fwd)
To: Bob Bernstein <torxhead@ruptured-duck.com>
From: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
List: tech-security
Date: 10/10/2001 08:50:09
In some email I received from Bob Bernstein, sie wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 04:45:28PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> 
> > 	Would this be relevant to NetBSD?
> 
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 19:26:07 -0300
> > From: Gustavo Ajzenman <core.lists.bugtraq@core-sdi.com>
> > To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
> > Subject: OpenBSD bug
> 
> [snip]
> > in Linux and OpenBSD (http://www.openbsd.org/advisories/signal.txt).
> 
> Just to make life a tad easier today, make that:
> 
> http://www.openbsd.org/advisories/signals.txt

I asked the person who discovered this problem for a test program - that
has yet to be forthcoming.

In examination of the code, NetBSD only tracks one uid and it is always
copied.  In OpenBSD, they weren't copying all the uid's stored in the
appropriate structure.

Darren