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Date:      Sun, 9 Sep 2001 06:04:26 +0400
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>, mike@sentex.net, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fwd: Multiple vendor 'Taylor UUCP' problems.
Message-ID:  <20010909060426.C34519@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20010908190103.A5814@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <200109082103.f88L3fK29117@earth.backplane.com> <20010908181652H.jkh@freebsd.org> <5.1.0.14.0.20010908211920.02949008@192.168.0.12> <20010908182304C.jkh@freebsd.org> <20010908190103.A5814@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 19:01:03 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> uucp binaries in question.  uustat is executed by default by root in
> /etc/periodic.

uustat must be executed by 'su -m uucp' in any case.

> There are other consequences of the underlying vulnerability (full
> read/write access to the /var/spool/uucp directories, for example), so

It can't be fixed without total UUCP redesign, it is their problem, not
ours.

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Andrey A. Chernov
http://ache.pp.ru/

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