From owner-freebsd-security Thu Aug 10 14:36:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3C5037BA2B; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 14:36:25 -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 OAA55604; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 14:36:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 14:36:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: "Vladimir Mencl, MK, susSED" Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: suidperl exploit In-Reply-To: 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 Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Vladimir Mencl, MK, susSED wrote: > I just came over the suidperl + mail vulnerability in Linux, and I was > wondering whether it would work in FreeBSD. I believe FreeBSD to be safe from this particular misfeature - FreeBSD's mail(1) program lives in another location, as already noted, and I don't even know if it supports the required features to exploit it. 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