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From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
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Subject: Re: ptrace vulnerability, was: Something fishy with our PT_ATTACH code!
To: ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu (Guy Helmer)
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 11:25:22 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.93.960426083930.839B-100000@alpha.dsu.edu> from "Guy Helmer" at Apr 26, 96 08:44:53 am
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Guy Helmer wrote:
> 
> That reminds me, did BSDI release any information/patches regarding the
> ptrace vulnerabilitiy (CERT VB-96.04.bsdi)?  I assume the 4.4BSD-derived
> systems had the same ptrace code...
> 

When I looked at the sources in FreeBSD and to the supplied patch by BSDI, 
it seemed the two are totally different pieces of code.

-Guido