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Date:      Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:04:30 -0600
From:      "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Knud Erik H?jgaard <knud@skodliv.dk>, ports@freebsd.org, mita@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: security problem in /usr/ports/comms/efax
Message-ID:  <20021114230430.GA63546@madman.nectar.cc>
In-Reply-To: <20021114224806.GF11972@rot13.obsecurity.org>
References:  <039801c28c0d$07d52d70$24029dd9@tuborg> <20021114224806.GF11972@rot13.obsecurity.org>

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On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 02:48:21PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 07:38:29PM +0100, Knud Erik H?jgaard wrote:
> > ===>  SECURITY NOTE:
> >       This port has installed the following binaries which execute with
> >       increased privileges.
> > 326461  192 -rwsr-xr-x    1 uucp             dialer              97432 Nov
> > 14 19:13 /usr/local/bin/efax
[...]
> Thanks for your note.  I have marked the port FORBIDDEN for now until
> someone can review and commit your patch.
[...]


Just FYI, this efax application is the same one that is and has
been bundled with KDE's kdeutils package --- or at least they have
the same heritage.  The kdeutils package no longer installs efax
set-user-ID since about kdeutils 2.2.2.  You can google for `kdeutils
efax security' to find more information.  The kdeutils efax may already
have a fix...


Cheers,
-- 
Jacques A. Vidrine <nectar@celabo.org>          http://www.celabo.org/
NTT/Verio SME          .     FreeBSD UNIX     .       Heimdal Kerberos
jvidrine@verio.net     .  nectar@FreeBSD.org  .          nectar@kth.se


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