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Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 20:49:33 -0500 (EST)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com,
"Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request: oping allows the disclosure of
arbitrary file contents
On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, Josh Bressers wrote:
> That issue has a CVE id. I gave it CVE-2009-3614 quite some time ago.
> http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125561742729846&w=2
A "feature" in our oss-security list monitor prevented me from noticing
this post. Apologies.
> The discussion then branched out into if an unchecked call to setuid to
> drop permissions is a security flaw (as a user could cause it to fail,
> preventing oping from dropping privs). I saw nothing in the code that
> showed it to be anything but a bug, as oping doesn't do anything
> exciting after the call could fail.
OK, in this context I would agree (just to be consistent with my Oct 16
post.)
- Steve
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