From owner-cvs-all Wed Jul 5 13:46:29 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B98537BFF4; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 13:46:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA73700; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 13:46:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 13:46:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Jean-Marc Zucconi , Alfred Perlstein , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11/XFree86-4 Makefile In-Reply-To: <42293.962828386@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > They have fixed the _known_ holes but the server is still setuid > > root so the possibility of undiscovered security bugs remains. > > Which is all that can be said for *any* setuid root binary in FreeBSD. :-) We don't have any setuid root binaries which are this complex and fearsome :-) Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message