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Tag: Setuid

Linux Capabilities

Jul 31, 2014dropbear3 CommentsdebianFilesystem permissions, Linux, ping, Raw socket, Setuid

I was recently updating some code that uses fping. Initially it used exec() that was redirected to a temporary file but I changed it to use popen.  While it had been a while since I’ve done this sort of thing, I do recall there was an issue with running popen on setuid binary.  A later…

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