Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 00:49:00 +0100 (MET) From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) To: brian@saturn.net (Brian Mitchell) Cc: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Risk of having bpf0? (was URGENT: Packet sniffer found on my system) Message-ID: <9612112349.AA28154@wavehh.hanse.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961211140922.447A-100000@redmare.com> from "Brian Mitchell" at Dec 11, 96 02:12:04 pm
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> > And in what way can BPF make spoofing easier? > > BPF lets you send and recv raw packet frames. > Brian Mitchell / brian@saturn.net Of course, but only as root also. My point was that the whole discussion failed to mention that all the problem only occur when someone becomes root. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de> http://cracauer.cons.org Fax +49 40 522 85 36
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