Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 14:04:42 -0700 (PDT) From: dima@best.net (Dima Ruban) To: dg@root.com Cc: dima@best.net, imp@village.org (Warner Losh), gsutter@pobox.com (Gregory Sutter), security-officer@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [secure@FREEBSD.LUBLIN.PL: FreeBSD (and other BSDs?) local root explot] Message-ID: <199908262104.OAA97706@burka.rdy.com> In-Reply-To: <199908262056.NAA03100@implode.root.com> from David Greenman at "Aug 26, 1999 01:56:29 pm"
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David Greenman writes: > Yikes, you're not proposing that we disable following of symlinks that > point to binaries, are you? I'm sorry? I'm not sure I've got your question ... What binaries? This patch prevents coredumps to follow symlinks, that's it. Or is there a side effect? > > -DG > -- dima To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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