Re: Multiple OS kernel insecure handling of stdio file descriptor

[Shiva Persaud <shivapd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:21:52PM +0800, XFOCUS Security Team wrote:
> 
> XFOCUS team (http://www.xfocus.org/)  had discovered Multiple OS kernel
> insecure handling of stdio file descriptor.
> 
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> Affected OS Version
> 
> AIX 5.3

The AIX Security Team can be reached at security-alert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

We have investigated this issue and AIX is not affected. A privileged
process will not inherit closed file descriptors for stdio, stdout and
stderr.

Thanks,
Shiva Persaud


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Shiva Persaud / AIX Security Development

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