Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 20:48:26 +0400 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: World-writable files installed by ports Message-ID: <cb5206420609040948u7643f404ibb88bbd43d58f47d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420609010130j60f0b4a9i5401ab9fe6af2e7e@mail.gmail.com> References: <cb5206420608310715y7f9718e2j8736237f7943fad@mail.gmail.com> <20060831141924.GA30325@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060901012715.GA64266@xor.obsecurity.org> <cb5206420609010130j60f0b4a9i5401ab9fe6af2e7e@mail.gmail.com>
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On 9/1/06, Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 9/1/06, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 10:19:24AM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 06:15:18PM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > > > > Under no circumstances should a port install world-writable > > > > files or directories. In most cases this opens the system to all > > > > kinds of attacks. A simple grep brings the following list of > > > > makefiles to attention. I imagine that samba ports are > > > > somehow justified, as for the other ones, I hope secteam and > > > > committers will do something about them. > > > > > > The install process will warn about this (as well as group writable), > > > so you can also grep for the warning message in the pointyhat logs. > > > > Here's the list of world-writable from the last i386 6.x build: > > Thanks, Kris! I'll be working on patches for some of them > this weekend. Actually... I wonder if maintainers were already notified about this. I prefer to send out mass mail, wait for a little while and go fix some of the ports. Generating individual patches is a bit overstrenuous for me.
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