From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 19 14:35:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C33237B699 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 14:35:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA55264; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 23:35:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Matt Dillon Cc: mouss , "Aleksandr A.Babaylov" , roam@orbitel.bg (Peter Pentchev), walter@binity.com, wayne@staff.msen.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Protections on inetd (and /sbin/* /usr/sbin/* in general) References: <20010117103330.L364@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <4.3.0.20010117215944.04b10ae0@pop.free.fr> <200101192034.f0JKYFW97724@earth.backplane.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 19 Jan 2001 23:35:10 +0100 In-Reply-To: Matt Dillon's message of "Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:34:15 -0800 (PST)" Message-ID: Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matt Dillon writes: > The real problem here is the CGI script / server-side design allowing > the breakin in the first place. That's not a fixable problem when the customer is meant to provide his own scripts. I've worked on such a scenario before; we managed to chroot the scripts so we're reasonably confident that they can't do much harm except to themselves. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message