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If su is compiled with PAM support, it is possible for any local user to send SIGKILL to other processes with root privileges. There are only two conditions. First, the user must be able to perform su with a successful login. This does NOT have to be the root user, even using su with the same id is enough, e.g. "su $(whoami)". Second, SIGKILL can only be sent to processes which were executed after the su process. It is not possible to send SIGKILL to processes which were already running. I consider this as a security vulnerability, because I was able to write a proof of concept which unlocked a screen saver of another user this way.
Shadow SITES ============ Homepage http://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org/ FTP site ftp://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org/pub/pkg-shadow SVN repository anonymous read only access: svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-shadow/upstream SVN web interface http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-shadow/upstream or http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-shadow/upstream Mailing lists for general discuss: pkg-shadow-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org commit list: pkg-shadow-commits@lists.alioth.debian.org Mailing lists subscription http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-shadow-devel http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-shadow-commits Mailing lists archives: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-shadow-devel/ http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-shadow-commits/ S/Key support: Shadow can be built with S/Key support using the S/Key package from: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libskey/ or http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/skey-1.1.5.tar.bz2 Authors and contributors ======================== Thanks to at least the following people for sending patches, bug reports and various comments. This list may be incomplete, I received a lot of mail... Adam Rudnicki <adam@v-lo.krakow.pl> Alan Curry <pacman@tardis.mars.net> Alexander O. Yuriev <alex@bach.cis.temple.edu> Algis Rudys <arudys@rice.edu> Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> Aniello Del Sorbo <anidel@edu-gw.dia.unisa.it> Anton Gluck <gluc@midway.uchicago.edu> Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <misiek@pld.org.pl> Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> Brian R. Gaeke <brg@dgate.org> Calle Karlsson <ckn@kash.se> Chip Rosenthal <chip@unicom.com> Chris Evans <lady0110@sable.ox.ac.uk> Cristian Gafton <gafton@sorosis.ro> Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> Darcy Boese <possum@chardonnay.niagara.com> Dave Hagewood <admin@arrowweb.com> David A. Holland <dholland@hcs.harvard.edu> David Frey <David.Frey@lugs.ch> Ed Carp <ecarp@netcom.com> Floody <flood@evcom.net> Frank Denis <j@4u.net> George Kraft IV <gk4@us.ibm.com> Greg Mortensen <loki@world.std.com> Guido van Rooij Guy Maor <maor@debian.org> Hrvoje Dogan <hdogan@bjesomar.srce.hr> Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek@redhat.com> Janos Farkas <chexum@bankinf.banki.hu> Jay Soffian <jay@lw.net> Jesse Thilo <Jesse.Thilo@pobox.com> Joey Hess <joey@kite.ml.org> John Adelsberger <jja@umr.edu> Jonathan Hankins <jhankins@mailserv.homewood.k12.al.us> Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org> Joshua Cowan <jcowan@hermit.reslife.okstate.edu> Judd Bourgeois <shagboy@bluesky.net> Juergen Heinzl <unicorn@noris.net> Juha Virtanen <jiivee@iki.fi> Julian Pidancet <julian.pidancet@gmail.com> Julianne Frances Haugh <jockgrrl@ix.netcom.com> Leonard N. Zubkoff <lnz@dandelion.com> Luca Berra <bluca@www.polimi.it> Lukáš Kuklínek <lkukline@redhat.com> Lutz Schwalowsky <schwalow@mineralogie.uni-hamburg.de> Marc Ewing <marc@redhat.com> Martin Bene <mb@sime.com> Martin Mares <mj@gts.cz> Michael Meskes <meskes@topsystem.de> Michael Talbot-Wilson <mike@calypso.bns.com.au> Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Mike Pakovic <mpakovic@users.southeast.net> Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net> Nikos Mavroyanopoulos <nmav@i-net.paiko.gr> Pavel Machek <pavel@bug.ucw.cz> Peter Vrabec <pvrabec@redhat.com> Phillip Street Rafał Maszkowski <rzm@icm.edu.pl> Rani Chouha <ranibey@smartec.com> Sami Kerola <kerolasa@rocketmail.com> Scott Garman <scott.a.garman@intel.com> Sebastian Rick Rijkers <srrijkers@gmail.com> Seraphim Mellos <mellos@ceid.upatras.gr> Shane Watts <shane@nexus.mlckew.edu.au> Steve M. Robbins <steve@nyongwa.montreal.qc.ca> Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> Tim Hockin <thockin@eagle.ais.net> Timo Karjalainen <timok@iki.fi> Ulisses Alonso Camaro <ulisses@pusa.eleinf.uv.es> Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> Maintainers =========== Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczek@pld.org.pl> (2000-2007) Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net> (2007-2014) Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> (2014-now)