Alan Cox c4bbafda70 exec.c: fix coredump to pipe problem and obscure "security hole" ...

The patch checks for "|" in the pattern not the output and doesn't nail a
pid on to a piped name (as it is a program name not a file)

Also fixes a very very obscure security corner case.  If you happen to have
decided on a core pattern that starts with the program name then the user
can run a program called "|myevilhack" as it stands.  I doubt anyone does
this.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Confirmed-by: Christopher S. Aker <caker@theshore.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2007-04-17 16:36:26 -07:00

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