[174722] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Sun Sep 28 00:46:58 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Sep 2014 21:10:28 -0400."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 00:46:39 -0400
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 21:10:28 -0400, Jay Ashworth said:
> I haven't an example case, but it is theoretically possible.
The sendmail setuid bug, where it failed to check the return code
because it was *never* possible for setuid from root to non-root to fail...
... until the Linux kernel grew new features.
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