Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 07:00:24 +0200 From: Jacques Marneweck <jmarneweck@gmail.com> To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, d@delphij.net Subject: Re: FreeBSD bug grants local root access (FreeBSD 6.x) Message-ID: <4802d0520910012200p271a2d5awc5e69b9ab1235851@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090928192256.GC2111@arthur.nitro.dk> References: <4AAF45B4.60307@isafeelin.org> <4AAF5999.7020501@delphij.net> <200909251248.n8PCmJPY011925@lava.sentex.ca> <20090928192256.GC2111@arthur.nitro.dk>
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Hi Simon, Is there any further feedback regarding this bug? Has anyone tested to see if this also affects FreeBSD 5.x? Regards --jm On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Simon L. Nielsen <simon@freebsd.org> wrote= : > On 2009.09.25 08:52:25 -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: >> At 05:08 AM 9/15/2009, Xin LI wrote: >> >Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: >> > > Hi, >> > > >> > > Any info on this subject on >> > > >> > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/14/freebsd_security_bug/ >> > >> >Currently we (secteam@) are testing the correction patch and do >> >peer-review on the security advisory draft, the bug was found and fixed >> >on -HEAD and 7-STABLE before 7.1-RELEASE during some stress test but wa= s >> >not recognized as a security vulnerability at that time. =C2=A0The expl= oit >> >code has to be executed locally, i.e. either by an untrusted local user= , >> >or be exploited in conjunction with some remote vulnerability on >> >applications that allow the attacker to inject their own code. >> > >> >We can not release further details about the problem at this time, >> >though, but I think we will likely to publish the advisory and >> >correction patch this patch Wednesday. >> >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Just wondering if there is any update = on this issue ? > > It turned out more difficult to fix than expected and we (secteam) > didn't handle that as well as we should have, but I think we are > almost there so the advisory should be out soon - sometime this week > at the latest. > > Sorry about the delay - this should have been fixed by now. > > -- > Simon L. Nielsen > FreeBSD Deputy Security Officer --=20 Jacques Marneweck http://www.powertrip.co.za/ http://www.powertrip.co.za/blog/ http://www.ataris.co.za/ #include <std/disclaimer.h>
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