Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 16:17:08 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Wesley Shields <wxs@csh.rit.edu> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-current-local@be-well.ilk.org> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Importing csup into base Message-ID: <20060301211708.GA30508@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060301211932.GA42815@csh.rit.edu> References: <20060301170306.GZ55746@elvis.mu.org> <4405F673.8060907@samsco.org> <44mzg9ucpm.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20060301211932.GA42815@csh.rit.edu>
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--7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 04:19:32PM -0500, Wesley Shields wrote: > On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 03:33:41PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> writes: > >=20 > > > Maxime Henrion wrote: > > > > Hey all, > > > > I have released a new snapshot of csup a few minutes ago, > > >=20 > > > [...] > > >=20 > > > > - Executes (shell commands sent by the server, even more rarely > > > > used), > > >=20 > > > Are you joking? > >=20 > > Are you asking whether he's joking about (1) the idea of ever > > implementing it, (2) the fact that he hasn't done it yet, or=20 > > (3) the idea that it's rarely used? All of those sound=20 > > reasonable to me... >=20 > I'm questioning (1) myself. This just seems like a bad idea from a > security perspective. Of course, some kind of sanitization could > mitigate the issue. Let's not lose sight of the fact that whoever runs the cvsup server already owns your machine, since they're giving you unauthenticated source code [1]. Kris [1] Please don't take this as an invitation to talk about how Someone Should Fix This, since it's not on the table until Someone first writes csupd :-) --7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEBg9UWry0BWjoQKURAuYdAKDfEiMo3lZZzE9MzVDVJo0GdRie8gCcDqCP 4FR7SnSvsiB0CvWZNxPzyAQ= =WyeE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH--
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