Re: procfs hole

[garbanzo () HOOKED NET (Alex)]

On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Eivind Eklund wrote:

> > There is a major hole in procfs under FreeBSD 2.2.1 (2.1 is not affected,
> > I have not tested 3.x but I believe it to be vulnerable as well) along
> > with OpenBSD (not tested by me, but by someone else -- believe it was
> > 2.1-RELEASE although obsd doesnt mount procfs by default like freebsd
> > does).
>
> Temporary fix: Disable the /proc filesystem.  Setting ro instead of rw in
> /etc/fstab or chmod'ing on the mountpoint do _not_ work.
>
> Eivind,
> looking for a proper fix, but not expecting to get there before David.

There was a patch released on FreeBSD-Hackers about 3 or so hours ago,
that claims to fix the problem.

- alex