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From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
Subject: Re: bin/46838: security vulnerability in dump
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The following reply was made to PR bin/46838; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To: System Administrator <root@asarian-host.net>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/46838: security vulnerability in dump
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 20:32:11 +0000

 On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 09:09:57PM +0100, System Administrator wrote:
 > When dumping to a file, dump writes this file chmod 644. When the
 > root-partition is being backed-up, this leaves the dump-file 
 > vulnerable to scanning by unprivileged users for the duration of the dump.
 
 I've tested dump in -current, and it creates the file with the mode
 dictated by my umask. I believe this is the correct behaviour - if
 you want your dumps created with a more restrictive mode I'd suggest
 running "umask 077" before running dump.
 
 I'll close the PR if this explains the problem you are seeing.
 
 	David.

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