Why are the symlinks to the executables in /proc broken?
Issue
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Linux Daemons with Broken Links to Executables, why?
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The symbolic links referring to the executables of each process in
/proc
are seen to be broken:
[user@test ~]$ ll /proc/*/exe 2>/dev/null
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 Sep 12 07:08 /proc/10/exe
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 Sep 12 13:08 /proc/1150/exe
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 Sep 12 13:08 /proc/1151/exe
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 sibu sibu 0 Sep 12 13:33 /proc/2364/exe -> /bin/bash
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 Sep 12 13:33 /proc/2389/exe
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 Sep 12 07:08 /proc/8/exe
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 Sep 12 07:08 /proc/9/exe
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 sibu sibu 0 Sep 12 16:36 /proc/self/exe -> /bin/ls
[user@test ~]$
- This is highlighted as an issue by "Nessus Vulnerability Scanner"
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux(All)
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