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Message-ID: <86wq80mk8k.fsf@nine.des.no>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:34:03 +0200
From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@....no>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Abusing TZ for fun (and little profit)
Dave Horsfall <dave@...sfall.org> writes:
> Perhaps I've missed something here, but surely if you have "sudo"
> privileges then you can read the file for yourself?
Not necessarily; sudo can be used to grant users or groups of users
permission to run a specific command, which would not necessarily allow
them to read arbitrary files.
> And if you're trying to trace a set-uid program then it won't work
> anyway? Neither my Mac nor my FreeBSD box have "strace", and my
> Penguin is dead, so I cannot verify this.
FreeBSD has ktrace instead, which is far more capable.
DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@....no
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