Security enhancement against malware for Tor
I've written a small patch that helps disable ptracing Tor on modern Linux systems. It may also work on *BSD but I haven't tested it on anything except Ubuntu 11.04 on x86_64.
Here's the git branch off of a very recent master: https://gitweb.torproject.org/ioerror/tor.git/shortlog/refs/heads/DisableDebuggerAttachment
When this is running you'll not be able to attach to the Tor unless you're root, even if you're running Tor as the same user as gdb/strace/etc:
% gdb -p 31053
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Attaching to process 31053
Could not attach to process. If your uid matches the uid of the target
process, check the setting of /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope, or try
again as the root user. For more details, see /etc/sysctl.d/10-ptrace.conf
ptrace: Operation not permitted.% strace -p 31053
attach: ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, ...): Operation not permitted
Could not attach to process. If your uid matches the uid of the target
process, check the setting of /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope, or try
again as the root user. For more details, see /etc/sysctl.d/10-ptrace.conf
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