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Date:      Wed, 8 Nov 2000 23:17:17 -0800 (PST)
From:      brooks@one-eyed-alien.net
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Cc:        rwatson@freebsd.org
Subject:   kern/22711: [PATCH] non-root users can't debug
Message-ID:  <200011090717.eA97HHK00634@minya.sea.one-eyed-alien.net>

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>Number:         22711
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       [PATCH] non-root users can't debug
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Nov 08 23:20:01 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Brooks Davis
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
The Aerospace Corp
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD minya 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Wed Nov 8 22:52:59 PST 2000 root@minya:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MINYA i386


>Description:

Attempting to run gdb on a process fails.  It seems that due to a small
bug, sys/kern/kern_prot.c rev 1.66 tightened things up a little bit too
far.

>How-To-Repeat:

while not root:

$ gdb <any program>
...
(gdb) run

>Fix:

Apply this patch.

Index: sys/kern/kern_prot.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/kern/kern_prot.c,v
retrieving revision 1.66
diff -u -r1.66 kern_prot.c
--- sys/kern/kern_prot.c	2000/10/30 20:30:03	1.66
+++ sys/kern/kern_prot.c	2000/11/09 07:06:05
@@ -1084,7 +1084,7 @@
 	/* add a CAP_SYS_PTRACE here? */
 	if (p1->p_cred->pc_ucred->cr_uid != p2->p_cred->p_ruid ||
 	    p1->p_cred->p_ruid != p2->p_cred->p_ruid ||
-	    p1->p_cred->p_svuid == p2->p_cred->p_ruid ||
+	    p1->p_cred->p_svuid != p2->p_cred->p_ruid ||
 	    p2->p_flag & P_SUGID) {
 		if ((error = suser_xxx(0, p1, PRISON_ROOT)))
 			return (error);

>Release-Note:
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