Bug 91722 – cannot ptrace process which has setuid()

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Bug 91722 - cannot ptrace process which has setuid()

Summary:	cannot ptrace process which has setuid()

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

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Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version:	2.1
Hardware:	i686 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Larry Woodman
QA Contact:	Brian Brock
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Blocks:	106715
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Reported:	2003-05-27 12:12 EDT by Joe Orton
Modified:	2012-06-20 09:20 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2012-06-20 09:20:03 EDT
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Description Joe Orton 2003-05-27 12:12:30 EDT

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225

Description of problem:
The ptrace security fixes were discovered to be buggy: they prevent ptrace()ing
a process which has called setuid().

This makes it very difficult, for instance, to debug an Apache httpd server.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.4.9-e.16

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. service httpd start
2. ps axf # and find an httpd child
3. strace -p <thepid>
    
Actual Results:  attach: ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, ...): Operation not permitted

Expected Results:  normal strace output.

Additional info:

This was fixed in some of the kernel updates for RHL, e.g. kernel-2.4.20-13.9
works correctly.

Comment 2 Jason Baron 2003-11-20 14:07:16 EST

fixed for U3

Comment 3 Jiri Pallich 2012-06-20 09:20:03 EDT

Thank you for submitting this issue for consideration in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The release for which you requested us to review is now End of Life. 
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