tags  757830 + unreproducible moreinfo
thanks

Am 11.08.2014 19:09, schrieb Klaus Ethgen:
> Package: udev
> Version: 208-7
> Severity: critical
> 
> The newest version of udev generates /dev/stdout as plain file instead
> as symlink to /proc/self/fd/1 with every boot. (stderr and stdin are
> created correctly.)
> 
> This is a security leak for some stuff and a problem for many tools
> especially security ones that explicitly handle stdout for some reasons.
> 
> The content in that file directly after boot (you can find below)
> pointed out that it happens especially for udev itself.
> 
> This bug affects the whole system.
> 

This bug is not reproducible here. Neither under systemd nor sysvinit.

Please check if this isn't a local modification on your part (e.g. in
the sysv init script).
Do you have devtmpfs support enabled in your self-built kernel? Can you
test with a Debian kernel.

Michael


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