Bugtraq: setuid root programs and core dumps

[rjq () phys ksu edu (Rob Quinn)]

> If you setuid to root and run it as someone other than root, it just
> does a bus error and doesn't core dump!
 Wasn't LD_LIBRARY_PATH also ignored by setuid programs? But people were still
able to use it to break into root programs. Maybe something similar can be
done here?

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