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Date:      Tue, 30 Mar 1999 01:24:22 -0600
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To:        "Harry M. Leitzell" <Harry_M_Leitzell@cmu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Curious about 'hoststat'
Message-ID:  <19990330012422.Z17547@futuresouth.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96L.990330015216.2230A-100000@unix8.andrew.cmu.edu>; from Harry M. Leitzell on Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 02:02:24AM -0500
References:  <Pine.SOL.3.96L.990330015216.2230A-100000@unix8.andrew.cmu.edu>

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On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 02:02:24AM -0500, a little birdie told me
that Harry M. Leitzell remarked
> 	Well, I am going through a FreeBSD machine and removing the suid
> bits on programs that have no purpose having them for a simple user host
> machine.  Going through /var/log/setuid.today and changing the permissions
> on the programs seems like a good idea until I got to 'hoststat'.
> 
> -r-sr-xr-x  5 root wheel  290016 Feb 15 05:45:23 1999 /usr/bin/hoststat

I'm too asleep to look at CVS logs, but here's food for thought:

1) From strings-ing it, it looks like part of sendmail

2)
[1:21:57] mortis:~
(ttyp5):{2417}% ktrace hoststat
[1:22:13] mortis:~
(ttyp5):{2418}% page kdump < ktrace.out
 19217 ktrace   RET   ktrace 0
 19217 ktrace   CALL  readlink(0x200709a2,0xefbfd2c0,0x3f)
 19217 ktrace   NAMI  "/etc/malloc.conf"
 19217 ktrace   RET   readlink -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
 19217 ktrace   CALL  mmap(0,0x1000,0x3,0x1002,0xffffffff,0,0,0)
 19217 ktrace   RET   mmap 536985600/0x2001c000
 19217 ktrace   CALL  break(0x5000)
 19217 ktrace   RET   break 0
 19217 ktrace   CALL  break(0x6000)
 19217 ktrace   RET   break 0
 19217 ktrace   CALL  execve(0xefbfd3c8,0xefbfd888,0xefbfd890)
 19217 ktrace   NAMI  "/usr/local/bin/hoststat"
 19217 ktrace   RET   execve -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
 19217 ktrace   CALL  execve(0xefbfd3c8,0xefbfd888,0xefbfd890)
 19217 ktrace   NAMI  "/usr/local/sbin/hoststat"
 19217 ktrace   RET   execve -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
 19217 ktrace   CALL  execve(0xefbfd3c8,0xefbfd888,0xefbfd890)
 19217 ktrace   NAMI  "/usr/bin/hoststat"



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