Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 22:58:20 -0400 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com>, Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@FreeBSD.ORG>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11/XFree86-4 Makefile Message-ID: <200007060258.WAA21955@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Jul 2000 13:46:25 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007051345220.36226-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007051345220.36226-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > They have fixed the _known_ holes but the server is still setuid > > > root so the possibility of undiscovered security bugs remains. > > > > Which is all that can be said for *any* setuid root binary in FreeBSD. :-) > > We don't have any setuid root binaries which are this complex and fearsome > :-) Uh, -r-sr-xr-x 1 root wheel 316348 Jun 5 22:16 /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail* I'm not sure if I fear X or sendmail more, but it's pretty close! louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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