severity 712744 normal
tags 712744 -security +moreinfo
thanks

Hi Samuel,

> gpg-agent could do prctl(PR_SET_DUMPABLE, 0, 0, 0, 0) to protect user
> secrets from appearing in coredumps or being stolen using ptrace(), like
> ssh-agent does.  Unfortunately it doesn't yet do this.

gpg-agent uses setrlimit to prevent core dumps. Is there any indication that 
this is not sufficient?


Cheers,
Thijs

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