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Id: 21400
Status: new
Priority: 0/
Queue: Proc-UID

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Owner: PJF [...] cpan.org
Requestors: mgrimes [...] behrmancap.com
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Severity: Important
Broken in: 0.04
Fixed in: (no value)



Subject: drop_gid_perm does not alter supplemental privileges
Mark Grimes discovered that when calling the drop_gid_perm() function provided by Proc::GID, supplemental groups are not dropped. This is contrary to common expectations, and may result in proceses retaining privileges they had intended to discard. Proc::UID should be modified to provided a way to drop supplemental groups. This may involve changing the behaviour of the drop_gid_perm() call.