Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 11:06:43 -0500 (EST) From: Howard Goldstein <hg@penny.n2wx.ampr.org> Cc: FREEBSD-SECURITY-L <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: User creating root-owned directories? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960210110352.492B-100000@n2wx.ampr.org> In-Reply-To: <199602100808.AAA02008@precipice.shockwave.com>
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On Sat, 10 Feb 1996, Paul Traina wrote: > In any case, I'd upgrade to sendmail 8.7.x (x=current) and freebsd 2.1 > -stable just to be sure you've got all the security patches. 8.6.12 does > have bugs in it which could allow a user to gain root. I'd also suggest use of the 'smrsh' restricted shell on sendmail-invoked processes to help keep security on sendmail up to snuff as future holes are discovered (see smrsh subdir in the sendmail distrib). -- Howard Goldstein <hg@n2wx.ampr.org> http://www.tapr.org/~n2wx/ mail/newsadmin @mpcs.com
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