From owner-freebsd-security Thu Aug 26 11:31: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.veriohosting.com (gatekeeper.veriohosting.com [192.41.0.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB2C2158BA for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 11:30:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hart@iserver.com) Received: by gatekeeper.veriohosting.com; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:30:05 -0600 (MDT) Received: from unknown(192.168.1.109) by gatekeeper.veriohosting.com via smap (V3.1.1) id xma017291; Thu, 26 Aug 99 12:29:39 -0600 Received: (hart@localhost) by anchovy.orem.iserver.com (8.9.3) id MAA04809; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:28:45 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:28:44 -0600 (MDT) From: Paul Hart X-Sender: hart@anchovy.orem.iserver.com To: Warner Losh Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD (and other BSDs?) local root explot] In-Reply-To: <199908261810.MAA66492@harmony.village.org> 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, 26 Aug 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > The verified patch files help a whole lot. Has anyone investigated patches to the fts(3) functions in libc? We've seen kernel patches (to stop following symbolic links when dumping core?) but it would be nice to fix the fts(3) bugs as well that started all of this. Paul Hart -- Paul Robert Hart ><8> ><8> ><8> Verio Web Hosting, Inc. hart@iserver.com ><8> ><8> ><8> http://www.iserver.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message