[ubuntu-hardened] Removing SUID on binaries that don't need it

Scott James Remnant scott at ubuntu.com
Thu Nov 29 22:21:48 GMT 2007


On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 16:44 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:

> Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > The other process owned by the user that ptraced you, and made you skip
> > the syscalls that dropped your caps.
> 
> You can't ptrace suid programs.
> 
*cough* I never actually read the subject.  Bad me.

Scott
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