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Date:      Thu, 26 Aug 1999 17:48:28 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Barrett Richardson <barrett@phoenix.aye.net>
Cc:        dg@root.com, dima@best.net, Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com>, security-officer@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [secure@FREEBSD.LUBLIN.PL: FreeBSD (and other BSDs?) local root explot] 
Message-ID:  <199908262348.RAA69353@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Aug 1999 19:25:33 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.01.9908261915120.13229-100000@phoenix.aye.net> 
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.01.9908261915120.13229-100000@phoenix.aye.net>  

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.01.9908261915120.13229-100000@phoenix.aye.net> Barrett Richardson writes:
: On Digital Unix where core dumps are a big problem with setuid
: binaries and the symlink issue, core dumps are disabled on
: binaries that do not have a read bit set. This offers an "on
: the fly" workaround.

Setuid binaries already don't dump core.

Warner


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