[3226] in bugtraq
Re: Possible bufferoverflow condition in lpr, xterm and xload
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zygo Blaxell)
Tue Aug 20 19:57:14 1996
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 17:34:25 -0400
Reply-To: Bugtraq List <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
From: Zygo Blaxell <zblaxell@MYRUS.COM>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
In article <199608131325.JAA21033@denali.contract.kent.edu>,
Mike Acar <BUGTRAQ@netspace.org> wrote:
>perhaps this is no surprise to anybody. To Red Hat's credit, none of the
>s[ug]id binaries they provide is writable by anybody but the owner.
Not that this is a significant benefit...if you're not root, writing to
a file automatically turns off the set[ug]id bit.
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