From owner-freebsd-security Mon Oct 22 2:26:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D455137B401 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 02:26:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialup-209.247.143.67.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.247.143.67] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15vbLu-0003mM-00; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 02:26:35 -0700 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f9M9PZH02340; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 02:25:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 02:25:34 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Fernando Schapachnik Cc: Hassan Halta , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using dump for backups. Message-ID: <20011022022534.B332@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20011020231659.H77421-100000@quark.cs.earlham.edu> <20011021113323.A77630@ns1.via-net-works.net.ar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011021113323.A77630@ns1.via-net-works.net.ar>; from fschapachnik@vianetworks.com.ar on Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 11:33:23AM -0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 11:33:23AM -0300, Fernando Schapachnik wrote: > dump has had a history of exploitable overflows, which of course had > been fixed. > > Anyway, the risk was just having it on the system, and using it or > not didn't change the risk. And dump(8) has not been setuid root since 1997. It has not been setgid tty for just over a month. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message