Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 15:42:13 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff Aitken <jaitken@cslab.vt.edu> To: Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com (Don Lewis) Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BoS: Exploit for sendmail smtpd bug (ver. 8.7-8.8.2). Message-ID: <9611182042.AA26448@husky.cslab.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <199611181935.LAA16011@salsa.gv.ssi1.com> from "Don Lewis" at Nov 18, 96 11:35:16 am
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Don Lewis writes: > On Nov 18, 2:16pm, Adam Shostack wrote: > } Subject: Re: BoS: Exploit for sendmail smtpd bug (ver. 8.7-8.8.2). > } > } If network access went through the file system, then > } chown smtp /dev/tcp/smtp would give us a known access control > } mechanism, rather than trying to extend the process table. > > I think mapping network accesses into filesystem space is the way to > go, but I don't know how to get the semantics right. Am I mis-remembering things, or is this exactly the sort of thing the portal filesystem is supposed to provide? I don't have my 4.4BSD book handy, but I seem to recall reading about this kind of feature. -- Jeff Aitken jaitken@dimension.net
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