From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Sep 9 16:50:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA29421 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 9 Sep 1996 16:50:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA29414; Mon, 9 Sep 1996 16:50:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 16:50:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199609092350.QAA29414@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs Cc: From: Bill Fenner Subject: Re: bin/1581: Traceroute SECURITY PROBLEM -- PRIORITY 1 Reply-To: Bill Fenner Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The following reply was made to PR bin/1581; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Bill Fenner To: karl@codebase.mcs.net Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/1581: Traceroute SECURITY PROBLEM -- PRIORITY 1 Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 16:45:52 PDT On August 13, I added setuid(getuid()) at the earliest place possible in traceroute (even before parsing args), so even though your additional changes should be made, -current's traceroute is already safe. Bill