[Bug 55804] Re: /proc/kcore not openable

[Dragomir Minkovski]

Reopening, Wouter Hanegraaff from OpenOfficeNL is complaining about it.
Citation: "Yesterday, I tried searching /proc/kcore when a crashed application didn't save it's data before crashing. Although this has worked many times before, it didn't right now: all I got was a tiny bit of data, followed by the error Operation not permitted.

How to reproduce:
- start ubuntu dapper, newest kernel
- type: cat /proc/kcore >/tmp/file as root

This was reported as https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-
source-2.6.15/+bug/55804

Denying access to /proc/kcore is not a security feature, it's a bug!
I've rescued lost data many times by just searching /proc/kcore.

Please fix this in the next kernel update for ubuntu dapper.

Wouter"

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/proc/kcore not openable
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