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Date:      Tue, 17 Feb 2004 18:19:20 +0200
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
To:        audit@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Jonathan Lennox <lennox@cs.columbia.edu>
Subject:   [CFR] PR bin/56500: rpc.lockd needs to use reserved ports
Message-ID:  <20040217161920.GB712@straylight.m.ringlet.net>

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Hi,

Does anybody see any possible security problems with the fix proposed
in PR bin/56500, which makes rpc.lockd regain root privileges for long
enough to bind to a reserved RPC port?

G'luck,
Peter

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