>>>>> "SP" == Shiva Persaud <shivapd@austin.ibm.com> writes:

>> XFOCUS team (http://www.xfocus.org/) had discovered Multiple OS kernel
>> insecure handling of stdio file descriptor.
>>
>> ===================
>> Affected OS Version
>>
>> AIX 5.3

SP> The AIX Security Team can be reached at security-alert@austin.ibm.com.

SP> We have investigated this issue and AIX is not affected. A privileged
SP> process will not inherit closed file descriptors for stdio, stdout and
SP> stderr.

well, but what is used for stdout if it's closed in the parent
process just before fork(2) call?!

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