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Subject: Re: IMPORTANT FOR lukemftpd USERS (was Re: FreeBSD Security
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On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 05:35:11PM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> I have a correction to make regarding the above text.  In the case of
> lukemftpd (and lukemftpd only), in some situations the vulnerability
> may be used to execute code with _superuser privileges_.
>
> If lukemftpd is NOT invoked with `-r', then it does NOT completely
> drop privileges when a user logs in.  Thus, a successful exploit will
> be able to regain superuser privileges.

(By the way, it was Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> who encouraged
me to look at this a second time.)

[...]
> I would normally immediately publish a revised advisory with this
> additional information, however lukemftpd is neither built nor
> installed by default.  Since that is the case, I will probably wait a
> few days before revision in case further useful information comes to
> light.

Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> pointed out that
lukemftpd actually *did* ship with 4.7-RELEASE (!!), so I will be
sending out a revision sooner rather than later.

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques Vidrine   . NTT/Verio SME      . FreeBSD UNIX       . Heimdal
nectar@celabo.org . jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@freebsd.org . nectar@kth.se