Re: Fixing a security hole in pinfo.

2003-09-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>* include/sys/cygwin.h: Rename PID_UNUSED to PID_MAP_RW. >>* pinfo.cc (pinfo_init): Initializ

Part 2 of Fixing a security hole in pinfo.

2003-09-13 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
This is the second and final part of the pinfo security patch. It creates the _pinfo mapping with appropriate security attributes. They temporarily still give write access to Everyone, until Chris releases his new method for children to signal their parents. However things are not that simple.

[Oops] Part 2 of Fixing a security hole in pinfo.

2003-09-13 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
Here is the patch. Index: security.h === RCS file: /cvs/src/src/winsup/cygwin/security.h,v retrieving revision 1.44 diff -u -p -r1.44 security.h --- security.h 10 Sep 2003 02:12:25 - 1.44 +++ security.h 13 Sep 2003 21:29:56

Re: Part 2 of Fixing a security hole in pinfo.

2003-09-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 10:07:42PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >This is the second and final part of the pinfo security patch. Looks like a Corinna yea or nay on this one. I am going to be checking in *all* of my stuff soon, including the long promised device reorg that I started back in Dec