From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jul 28 17:18:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA15594 for security-outgoing; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 17:18:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from netrail.net (netrail.net [205.215.10.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA15585 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 17:18:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jonz@localhost) by netrail.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id UAA02246; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 20:16:53 GMT Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 20:16:53 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" To: Vincent Poy cc: "[Mario1-]" , JbHunt , Robert Watson , Tomasz Dudziak , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: security hole in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: 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 I have mine set to root-owned and have had no problems. I also made sure my config files were root, otherwise you could change that to run as-root which is just as bad. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan A. Zdziarski NetRail Incorporated Server Engineering Manager 230 Peachtree St. Suite 500 jonz@netrail.net Atlanta, GA 30303 http://www.netrail.net (888) - NETRAIL ------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Vincent Poy wrote: :On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote: : :=)As long as httpd and sessiond are owned by something other than what cgi :=)scripts run as you're safe, but if they are both nobody, you can replace :=)the binary...We had it happen to us once with v1.2 this is how I know. : : Hmmm, what should the owners be for those files? Since the apache :cgi scripts are owned by root as far as I can remember. : : :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 /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] : :