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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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