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 <li><font color=#009000><strong>007: SECURITY FIX: June 15, 2001</strong></font><br>  <li><font color=#009000><strong>007: SECURITY FIX: June 15, 2001</strong></font><br>
 A race condition exists in the kernel <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=execve&sektion=2&format=html">execve(2)</a> implementation that opens a small window of vulnerability for a non-privileged user to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ptrace&sektion=2&format=html">ptrace(2)</a> attach to a suid/sgid process.  A race condition exists in the kernel <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=execve&sektion=2&format=html">execve(2)</a> implementation that opens a small window of vulnerability for a non-privileged user to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ptrace&sektion=2&format=html">ptrace(2)</a> attach or queue up arbitrary signals to a suid/sgid process.
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 <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.9/common/007_kernexec.patch">A source code patch exists which remedies the problem</a>.  <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.9/common/007_kernexec.patch">A source code patch exists which remedies the problem</a>.
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