From owner-freebsd-security Thu Sep 7 3:46:38 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 558D137B423; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 03:46:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id DAA02738; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 03:46:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 03:46:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: "Vladimir Mencl, MK, susSED" Cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, security-officer@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UNIX locale format string vulnerability (fwd) 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, 7 Sep 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Thanks for the report. I'll look into it and issue a ports advisory if > necessary (this seems to be a sudo problem, not a FreeBSD one - > PATH_LOCALE is ignored if setugid, and at first glance LC_ALL is okay too, > although I need to check that properly) Which is to say, there could possibly be problems with certain vulnerable *non*-setugid apps launched by sudo, i.e. the user could execute other arbitrary commands as whatever user they are sudo'ing to. But I need to check whether this is in fact the case. 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