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Could you explain the security problems with games?

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On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Eivind Eklund wrote:

> > 
> > When I made world the other day, it installed sperl4.036 -- isn't that
> > known to be insecure?
> 
> Warner <imp@freebsd.org> fixed this, AFAIK.  It was unsecure, but
> nothing that is known to be insecure is shipped.  (Well, there is
> likely some exploits in games; I've been wanting to turn all of these
> setgid for quite a long while now, but never got around to it...)
> 
> Eivind.
>