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Date:      Mon, 29 Jan 2001 22:29:03 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-01:11.inetd [REVISED]
Message-ID:  <20010129222903.A79869@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200101300609.f0U69Cf70017@green.dyndns.org>; from green@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 01:09:11AM -0500
References:  <security-advisories@freebsd.org> <200101300609.f0U69Cf70017@green.dyndns.org>

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On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 01:09:11AM -0500, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> Actually, there were two issues.  One was that the permissions weren't=20
> dropped totally on the way to opening the .fakeid file, and the other was=
=20
> that it was not read in a way that would be guaranteed not to block, so b=
y=20
> creating a named pipe, the user could hang an inetd child.

Is that really a security issue, though?

Kris
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