Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 00:24:21 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: "Jason L. Schwab" <jschwab@royal.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reading files. Message-ID: <199906150624.AAA90467@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 13 Jun 1999 14:46:37 MDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906131445410.7278-100000@fkr.dynip.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906131445410.7278-100000@fkr.dynip.com>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906131445410.7278-100000@fkr.dynip.com> "Jason L. Schwab" writes: : I heard that there is a way to read any file on a freebsd system as a : normal non-root user.. is this true? if so can some one give me some info : on this? thanks. To the best of my knowledge, this is not correct in the current versions of FreeBSD. There have been bugs in prior versions which might allow this to happen. I don't think there are any in 2.2.8 even. Some of these bugs were very specific and required another user to do something and a race to be lost. Others required a sloppily programmed setuid program, with or without the same races. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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