From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Oct 29 10:29:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.com (gw.nectar.com [208.42.49.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B253337B4C5; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 10:29:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from hamlet.nectar.com (hamlet.nectar.com [10.0.1.102]) by gw.nectar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 268BA193DF; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 12:29:35 -0600 (CST) Received: (from nectar@localhost) by hamlet.nectar.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id e9TITZq69728; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 12:29:35 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nectar@spawn.nectar.com) Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 12:29:34 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: Roman Shterenzon Cc: Jeremy Norris , ports@FreeBSD.ORG, security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remote buffer overflow in gnomeicu 0.93 Message-ID: <20001029122934.A69717@hamlet.nectar.com> References: <20001029072540.A89648@babylon.merseine.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from roman@xpert.com on Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 08:00:32PM +0200 X-Url: http://www.nectar.com/ Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 08:00:32PM +0200, Roman Shterenzon wrote: > On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Jeremy Norris wrote: > > Gnomeicu doesn't run with any privelege however, unless one is > > foolish enough to run it as root. At worse, a deviant person could > > crash it and gain access as an unprivleged user. Is thate enough to > > make a port FORBIDDEN? > It's a serious security breach, like giving someone to login as you > without a password. That's exactly the same. Seems like a very serious > problem to me. > It's just a matter of time when the attacker will elevate her priveledges. Except that the bug in question is not a buffer overflow, and does not appear to have security consequences. I trust you have already reported the bug to the author -- when you get a reply, I would be happy to see it, too. -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message