From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jul 28 15:02:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA06502 for security-outgoing; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 15:02:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.MCESTATE.COM (vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM [207.211.200.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA06496 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 15:02:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by mail.MCESTATE.COM (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA06292; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 15:01:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 15:01:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy To: Adam Shostack cc: langfod@dihelix.com, security@FreeBSD.ORG, mario1@PrimeNet.Com, johnnyu@accessus.net Subject: Re: security hole in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199707282004.QAA07078@homeport.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Adam Shostack wrote: =)Vincent Poy wrote: =)| =)My suggestion to you would be to get a clean source tree, recompile everything =)| =)and install tripwire. =)| =)| I'll do that as soon as the machine comes back up. I heard that =)| suid programs can be a problem too but which ones are required to be suid? =) =) =) su really should be setuid. Everything else is debatable. My =)advice is to turn off all setuid bits except those you know you need =)(possibly w, who, ps, ping, at, passwd) Isn't traceroute supposed to be suid also? Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____]