Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 7672] dumpcap gives up write privileges too early
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Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:22:58 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7672

Jörg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Jörg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx> 2012-08-29 10:22:58 PDT ---
I have not looked at the patch too thoroughly, but to me it looks like it is
wrong when dumpcap is run by a user instead of root.
Note that the comment only mentions the case when dumpcap is run by user root.
The normal case, where dumpcap is run by a normal user (and because of this
either users captabilities or suid) is correct and gets broken by your patch.
Please let me know if I read this incorrectly.

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