security hardening: ensure suid programs have valid stdin/out/err
authorRich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:37:39 +0000 (09:37 -0400)
committerRich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:37:39 +0000 (09:37 -0400)
this behavior (opening fds 0-2 for a suid program) is explicitly
allowed (but not required) by POSIX to protect badly-written suid
programs from clobbering files they later open.

this commit does add some cost in startup code, but the availability
of auxv and the security flag will be useful elsewhere in the future.
in particular auxv is needed for static-linked vdso support, which is
still waiting to be committed (sorry nik!)


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