Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 03:20:44 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: gated 3.5.11 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.05.10003160258450.4925-100000@jason.argos.org>
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Due to ports/net/gated being marked as "forbidden", my requirement for it, and a quick search of the mailing lists, .... hawk:/usr/ports/net/gated# make ===> gated-3.5.11 is forbidden: Security hole (buffer overflow possibly yielding root). hawk:/usr/ports/net/gated# There was a message ~Dec 1 about a wheel-exploitable bug in gdc... Seems to me that the only risk is for people that get wheel group access (or so.... a wee bit too much brain-numbing beverage at this point in time. :) )... If I'm willing to take this risk, is there some other reason why this port is marked as forbidden? Or is there something else I can't find pointing to a "possibly yielding root" bug (my understanding being that "yielding root" means there's a bug in there allowing some inside or outside joker to get root privs...) If you need a valid account to start with, that's not a problem - telnetd & friends probably won't be running on this machine to start with -- just a serial console... thanks - mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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