Re: Bug in 2.2.3

George Bonser (grep@shorelink.com)
Tue, 16 Mar 1999 22:12:29 -0800 (PST)


On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Nuno Loureiro wrote:

>
> Hi!!
>
> Tonight, I found that doing a kill -9 -1 as a normal user kills root
> processes in 2.2.3ac1.
>
> I talked with other person and he had the same results with 2.2.3
> plain.
>
> I don't have time to test it with older versions to see if they are
> vulnerable too.
>

$ ps axu | grep sleep
root 3184 0.0 0.7 1064 352 ttyp0 S 22:09 0:00 sleep 600
grep 3202 0.0 0.9 1192 424 ttyp0 S 22:10 0:00 grep sleep
$ kill -9 -1 3184
bash: kill: (3184) - Not owner
$ uname -a
Linux fleegle 2.2.3 #1 Sun Mar 7 22:32:20 PST 1999 i586 unknown
$

Not here.

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