From owner-freebsd-security Thu Apr 11 22:47:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.freebsd.lublin.pl (mailhost.freebsd.lublin.pl [212.182.115.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E44D037B400 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 22:47:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by mailhost.freebsd.lublin.pl (8.11.6/8.11.4) id g3C5lZS04604 for security@freebsd.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 07:47:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from venglin@freebsd.lublin.pl) Received: from lagoon.freebsd.lublin.pl (qmailr@lagoon.freebsd.lublin.pl [212.182.115.11]) by mailhost.freebsd.lublin.pl (8.11.6/8.11.6av) with SMTP id g3C5kvP04590 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 07:47:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from venglin@freebsd.lublin.pl) Received: (qmail 4586 invoked by uid 1001); 12 Apr 2002 05:46:57 -0000 Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 07:46:57 +0200 From: Przemyslaw Frasunek To: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Corrected message] This OpenBSD local root hole may affect some FreeBSD systems Message-ID: <20020412074657.K58987@lagoon.freebsd.lublin.pl> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020411141011.030a0b80@nospam.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020411141011.030a0b80@nospam.lariat.org>; from brett@lariat.org on Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 02:12:01PM -0600 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 02:12:01PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > Fortunately, the vulnerability isn't present in FreeBSD's daily, weekly, > and monthly maintenance scripts, because they use sendmail rather > than /bin/mail. Nonetheless, the same patch should be applied to > FreeBSD's /bin/mail due to the possibility that other privileged > utilities (or user-written scripts) might use /bin/mail instead of > sendmail to create e-mail messages. FreeBSD's /usr/bin/mail doesn't accept ~! when working in non-interactive mode. lagoon:/home/venglin> echo "~\!touch foo" | mail venglin lagoon:/home/venglin> ls -la foo ls: foo: No such file or directory -- * Fido: 2:480/124 ** WWW: http://www.frasunek.com/ ** NIC-HDL: PMF9-RIPE * * Inet: przemyslaw@frasunek.com ** PGP: D48684904685DF43EA93AFA13BE170BF * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message