From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 27 04:27:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B12716A4CE; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 04:27:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from gw.celabo.org (gw.celabo.org [208.42.49.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F109843D1F; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 04:27:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nectar@celabo.org) Received: from madman.celabo.org (madman.celabo.org [10.0.1.111]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "madman.celabo.org", Issuer "celabo.org CA" (verified OK)) by gw.celabo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F01654846; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 06:27:19 -0600 (CST) Received: by madman.celabo.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1EC906D455; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 06:27:19 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 06:27:19 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: Andrey Chernov , D J Hawkey Jr , kientzle@acm.org, das@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <20040227122718.GA46119@madman.celabo.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" , Andrey Chernov , D J Hawkey Jr , kientzle@acm.org, das@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG References: <403CEF67.5040004@kientzle.com> <20040226225149.GB73252@nagual.pp.ru> <403E7B4D.8030803@kientzle.com> <20040227111353.GA14777@sheol.localdomain> <20040227112658.GA36271@nagual.pp.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040227112658.GA36271@nagual.pp.ru> X-Url: http://www.celabo.org/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i-ja.1 Subject: Re: Environment Poisoning and login -p X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Security issues [members-only posting] List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 12:27:20 -0000 On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 02:27:00PM +0300, Andrey Chernov wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 05:13:53AM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > > > Instead, I've decided to follow Jacques Vidrine's > > > suggestion of using a whitelist of environment variables > > > that are "known-safe." > > > > Coming in from left field... Will there be some sort of mechanism for > > an admin to set/modify this list? > > I agree we'll need it (because of different assumptions). Something like > /etc/safe_environment file. Whoa, Let's not complicate things unnecessarily. Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine / nectar@celabo.org / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@freebsd.org