Subject: Re: Bugtraq: procfs hole
To: None <tech-security@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
List: tech-security
Date: 08/15/1997 01:37:18
In article <5t04c5$gm9$1@colwyn.owl.de>,
tron@lyssa.owl.de (Matthias Scheler) writes:
>> So the obvious intermediate fix is to take procfs out of your kernel.
I like to use kernel modules. :-)
> Why? Unmounting "/proc" and removing it from "/etc/ftab" ought to be
> enough.
I'm wrong, it isn't. :-(
>> Obviously, removing mount_procfs won't help much.
>
> To use "mount_procfs" you need root privileges.
I just discoverd that you don't if you mount it on a directory in your
home what I never tried before.
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Matthias Scheler http://home.owl.de/~tron/