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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 11:43:52 -0700
From: Seth Arnold <seth.arnold@...onical.com>
To: Graham Dumpleton <graham.dumpleton@...il.com>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Security release for mod_wsgi (version 3.5)
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:39:49PM +1000, Graham Dumpleton wrote:
> On MacOS X at least, it [setgid] really doesn't care what you give it.
> You can give it negative numbers or even really large numbers and it
> will happily set it to the value. I can't find any good information on
> what Linux would do and can't test it right now.
On Linux, since 2.4 times, all representable values in gid_t are legal
group ids:
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/en/man2/setgid.2.html
Thanks
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