Does Linux process exist information leakage?
From: riel@surriel.com (Rik van Riel)
Date: 2012-01-19 20:23:32
On 01/11/2012 01:44 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
When a linux process dies, it first becomes a zombie and the parent process is signaled. The parent process at that point can still do various things. If the parent is a debugger, it can get all sorts of details from the zombie. When the parent acknowledges the death of child signal, the zombie is really killed and removed from the system tables, etc.
The memory of a process is freed before it becomes a zombie.