This is the mail archive of the cygwin-patches@cygwin.com mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: Fixing a security hole in pinfo.


On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 12:15:45AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 12:05:42AM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>>2003-09-11  Pierre Humblet <pierre.humblet@ieee.org>
>>
>>        * include/sys/cygwin.h: Rename PID_UNUSED to PID_MAP_RW.
>>        * pinfo.cc (pinfo_init): Initialize myself->gid.
>>        (pinfo::init): Create the "access" variable, set it appropriately
>>        and use it to specify the requested access.
>>        * exceptions.cc (sig_handle_tty_stop): Add PID_MAP_RW in pinfo parent.
>>        * signal.cc (kill_worker): Ditto for pinfo dest.
>>        * syscalls.cc (setpgid): Ditto for pinfo p.
>
>I'm going to hold off on checking this in until 1.5.4 is released.
>Otherwise, it looks ok.

Checked in.

Thanks.

cgf


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]