From owner-freebsd-security Mon Nov 2 00:00:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA27881 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 00:00:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from burka.rdy.com (burka.rdy.com [205.149.163.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA27875 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 00:00:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dima@burka.rdy.com) Received: (from dima@localhost) by burka.rdy.com (8.8.8/RDY&DVV) id AAA26243; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 00:00:39 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199811020800.AAA26243@burka.rdy.com> Subject: Re: SSH vsprintf patch. (You've been warned Mr. Glass) In-Reply-To: from "Matthew N. Dodd" at "Nov 2, 1998 2:34:52 am" To: winter@jurai.net (Matthew N. Dodd) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 00:00:38 -0800 (PST) Cc: dima@best.net, jkb@best.com, peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG X-Class: Fast Organization: HackerDome Reply-To: dima@best.net From: dima@best.net (Dima Ruban) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL45 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Matthew N. Dodd writes: > On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Dima Ruban wrote: > > Let me ask you this. Would you trust a packet that came from > > non-priviledged port and which wants to do something that even > > remotely should be secure? > > The concept of 'secure port' is somewhat dated in this age of NT and Linux > lusers. > > The bar for entry onto the net is quite a bit lower than it was 10 years > ago. > > Trusting a 'secure port' is a good way to let someone else shoot you in > the foot. Heh. I see you run nfs on your machine. Now tell me, do you actually allow weak NFS authentication, or do you actually somehow relie on a "priviledged port" stuff? I'm not arguing about whether it's good or bad to have priviledged ports as they are now. All I'm saying is if packet came from a priviledged port, then this packet was send by root. It's a totally different question whether you can 100% believe this information. > > -- > | Matthew N. Dodd | 78 280Z | 75 164E | 84 245DL | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | > | winter@jurai.net | This Space For Rent | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | > | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | > -- dima To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message