From owner-freebsd-security Tue Sep 5 10:23:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC3EE37B42C; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 10:23:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA20265; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 10:23:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 10:23:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, security-officer@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UNIX locale format string vulnerability (fwd) In-Reply-To: <200009051354.e85Dshb28813@cwsys.cwsent.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > Wouldn't a FreeBSD system with Linux compatibility being utilised be > vulnerable too? Yes, but only if you've installed a vulnerable linux binary which is setuid or setgid something. We don't install any set[ug]id binaries in the linux_base or linux_devtools ports. 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 freebsd-security" in the body of the message