From owner-cvs-all Sat Jul 8 15:31:27 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2261C37B594; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 15:31:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA66825; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:30:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) To: Mike Smith Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/crypto/openssh sshd.c References: <200007082230.PAA01325@mass.osd.bsdi.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 09 Jul 2000 00:30:56 +0200 In-Reply-To: Mike Smith's message of "Sat, 08 Jul 2000 15:30:13 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith writes: > > Well, for starters, /proc might not be mounted, and an 3v1l h4xx0r > > might be able to trick a root-owned process into creating > > /proc/curproc/file. > At which point about a billion other security holes are also opened. > Your argument holds equally well for suggesting that "secure" programs > should never read configuration files either. Agreed; I withdraw my objections. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message