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Date:      Sat, 17 May 2003 03:46:15 +0100
From:      "Killing" <killing@barrysworld.com>
To:        <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   open and euid security flaw in 5.0-Current?
Message-ID:  <001f01c31c1e$7e00e3d0$9f00a8c0@mshome.net>

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On a FreeBSD 5.0 the behaviour of screen when connecting to other
users sessions have changed. Previously:
1. login as userA start a screen as userA and disconnect
2. login as root su - userA "screen -r"
3. result failure as userA cant access the ttyX with such a message
Current:
1. login as userA start a screen as userA and disconnect
2. login as root su - userA "screen -r"
3. result failure as userA cant access the ttyX but no message

After looking around in screen's code I found that after doing a
seteuid( userA ) an open on root's terminal is still succeseding.

Surely this is a problem as when running euid userA there should
be no access to ruid's files?

    Steve / K




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