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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-06-08 18:16:53 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-06-08 18:16:53 +0200 |
| commit | 2f0e61aec205ff34a17c83872edf233eecea4032 (patch) | |
| tree | 9d961578c2ad53fdcbd8b6e4a330678a5b7929e8 | |
| parent | b665474b29435f39ef9377408f8849ea642a7ec9 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-2f0e61aec205ff34a17c83872edf233eecea4032.tar.gz | |
core.5: Note that not dumping core of an unreadable binary is a security measure
Reported-by: Jonny Grant <jg@jguk.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man5/core.5 | 4 |
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diff --git a/man5/core.5 b/man5/core.5 index 456366ea62..0d7b7b6178 100644 --- a/man5/core.5 +++ b/man5/core.5 @@ -90,6 +90,10 @@ in .IP * The binary being executed by the process does not have read permission enabled. +(This is a security measure to +ensure that an executable whose contents are not readable +does not produce a\(empossibly readable\(emcore dump containing +an image of the executable.) .IP * The process is executing a set-user-ID (set-group-ID) program that is owned by a user (group) other than the real user (group) |