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by copumpkin 3058 days ago
After looking at it more carefully, I'm not positive that it's a failure to check privileges, although the symptoms at the time made it look like that (literally logging an unprivileged process killing a privileged one). Rather, I think it's some sort of race.

Anyway, I'm glad they fixed it now, but the response to our original bug submission didn't inspire a ton of confidence.