Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 21:20:53 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fwd: Multiple vendor 'Taylor UUCP' problems. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010908211920.02949008@192.168.0.12> In-Reply-To: <20010908181652H.jkh@freebsd.org> References: <200109082103.f88L3fK29117@earth.backplane.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20010908153417.0286b4b8@192.168.0.12> <200109082103.f88L3fK29117@earth.backplane.com>
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At 06:16 PM 9/8/2001 -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
>Hmmmm. Stripping the suid bit I can understand, but what's really
>bought by making it immutable? I'm also truly loath to accept any
>changes to -stable at this point which don't fix demonstrably critical
>issues, so unless the security officers can cite evidence that this is
>a significant security hole, I'm inclined to reject the change.
>Thanks.
A local root exploit doesnt cut it ?
---Mike
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