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From:
Matthias Urlichs
Date:
December 3, 1999 21:38
Subject:
Re: getspnam-support
Message ID:
19991204063751.A12210@noris.de
Hi,

Tom Christiansen:
> If you can attack the memory of a setuid program, then all bets
> are off, and nothing else matters.
> 
There's a small difference between being able to look at the memory contents
(or crash dump) of a root program, and actually being able to make it do
system calls which weren't in the original blueprints.

The former kind of attack is useless against a program which doesn't _have_
any security-critical information in its memory, for the very simple
reason that it doesn't need it in the first place.


If I had no problem with having sensitive information in programs which
have no business reading it, I'd not need a shadow password file.

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