Important: pcp security update

Performance Co-Pilot PCP is a suite of tools, services, and libraries for acquisition, archiving, and analysis of system-level performance measurements. Its light-weight distributed architecture makes it particularly well-suited to centralized analysis of complex systems. Security Fixes: pcp:...

pmpost - another nice symlink follower

Hi, there is a symlink handling problem in the pcp suite from SGI. The binary pmpost will follow symlinks, if setuid root this leads to instant root compromise, as found on SuSE 7.1 I doubt that this a default SuSE package, though. Attached a simple C source to demonstrate this gcc pm.c -o pm the...