Re: ptrace versus setuid changes in 4.14?

From: Tom Horsley
Date: Fri Dec 22 2017 - 15:55:53 EST


On Fri, 22 Dec 2017 12:28:25 -0800
Laura Abbott wrote:

> Assuming this is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1528633
> This is yet another victim of
>
> commit e37fdb785a5f95ecadf43b773c97f676500ac7b8 (refs/bisect/bad)
> Author: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue Jul 18 15:25:31 2017 -0700
>
> exec: Use secureexec for setting dumpability

You mean there is hope this really is a bug and not a security
enhancement? Amazing :-).

And yes, that is the bugzilla I submitted after I reduced
things to a small test program.