[7849] in bugtraq
Re: nslookup issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theo de Raadt)
Tue Sep 1 17:09:00 1998
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 13:09:10 -0600
Reply-To: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@CVS.OPENBSD.ORG>
From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@CVS.OPENBSD.ORG>
X-To: fred@cs.byu.edu
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Sep 1998 14:54:31 EDT."
<199809011854.OAA16169@vespa.cs.byu.edu>
> None of them run with privileges at all, and hence, couldn't be used
> by local users to gain extra privileges...
I'm sorry, but you are wrong.
Everything gets written with priviledges eventually.
Even when that's said, no software should dump core, for any reason.