[Patch] Fixing the PROCESS_DUP_HANDLE security hole.

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Sat Dec 4 17:33:00 GMT 2004


On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 11:45:28AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>At 12:43 AM 12/4/2004 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>I wrote a simple test case to check this and I don't see it -- on XP.  I
>>can't easily run Me anymore.  Does the attached program demonstrate this
>>behavior when you run it?  It should re-exec itself every time you hit
>>CTRL-C.
>
>That test case has no problem, but the attached one does. 
>Use kill -30 pid

Sigh.  Works fine on XP, AFAICT.

I'll try harder to get WinMe working later today.

cgf



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