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Date:      Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:52:46 +0000
From:      Jamie Landeg Jones <jamie@bishopston.net>
To:        gabor@zahemszky.hu, delphij@gmail.com
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ftpd security issue ?
Message-ID:  <201112120052.pBC0qkov014205@catflap.bishopston.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAGMYy3vZ9CjuboiQsuGnYLZPpbAMMCQScsu9toXLpOyWAdAA3A@mail.gmail.com>
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> > Are the following steps enough to prevent me?
> >
> > # for user in user1 user2 .... ; do
> > mkdir -p ~$user/lib ~$user/usr/lib ~$user/etc
> > chflags sunlink,schg ~$user/lib ~$user/usr ~$user/usr/lib ~$user/etc
> > done
> > #
>
> Yes that should be sufficient workaround.

I'd modify that to also check that the directories don't already exist,
and delete/rename them if they do.

Currently, (if you ignore error messages) your script will not fix users
who already potentially exploit the issue.

Cheers,
Jamie


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