Re: ps information leak in FreeBSD

[Sean Kelly <smkelly () zombie org>]

On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 08:46:50PM +0000, Cache wrote:
> [cache@silent][ttyv1] ~> sysctl -a | grep show
> kern.ps_showallprocs: 0
> [cache@silent][ttyv1] ~> ps -auxwwwp 101
> USER   PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS  TT  STAT STARTED      TIME COMMAND
> root   101  0,0  0,2  1020  740  ??  Is    0:12     0:00,01 /usr/sbin/cron

I've been aware of this problem for a long time, and in fact I made a patch
against 4.6-STABLE which can be applied to correct it. I am not sure how
portable it will be to 4.7-STABLE, but I imagine it would work.

Please see the relevent FreeBSD PR:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/42065

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