Bug#158090: security.debian.org: Easy for any user to fake messages into syslog
Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> writes:
> However, those who would like to see such a feature, should be free
> to patch their glibc and use it.
Eh, you don't have to patch libc, you'd have to patch syslogd (and
possibly the kernel, but maybe you could obtain trustworthy
information from /proc without kernel modification).
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