Re: [PATCH] set*uid() must not fail-and-return on OOM/rlimits

Ar Sul, 2006-08-20 am 19:30 +0400, ysgrifennodd Solar Designer:
> The problem is that there are lots of privileged userspace programs that
> do not bother to check the return value from set*uid() calls (or
> otherwise check that the calls succeeded) before proceeding with work
> that is only safe to do with the *uid switched as intended.

People keep saying this but we seem short of current, commonly shipped
examples. And quite frankly any code that doesn't check setuid returns
is unlikely to be fit for purpose in any other way and presumably has
never been adequately audited.

Alan

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