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Date:      Thu, 16 Dec 1999 09:12:59 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>
Cc:        Chris England <cengland@obscurity.org>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: From BugTraq - FreeBSD 3.3 xsoldier root exploit (fwd) 
Message-ID:  <199912161612.JAA71988@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Dec 1999 09:18:00 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.991216091552.26813A-100000@fledge.watson.org> 
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.991216091552.26813A-100000@fledge.watson.org>  

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In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.991216091552.26813A-100000@fledge.watson.org> Robert Watson writes:
: So, I'm sorry, could you be specific here: was this problem reported to
: security-officer@freebsd.org, or reported via a send-pr, or not reported
: to us?

The problem was reported to so twice.  Once about a week ago, and then
again just before the posting to bugtraq.  The first post hit while
everybody was swamped, so nothing happened.  The second post was to SO
just before it hit bugtraq from the bugtraq moderator and I just at
that moment happened to have a free 10 minutes to look at it.

: Would it be feasible for someone to go disable setuid bits in all the
: games/ tree? :-)  Why was xsoldier setuid?

No clue why it was suid.  Likely a silly high score file.

Warner


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