Re: Environment variables (SECURITY: too many new packages)

From: Pavel Kankovsky (peakat_private)
Date: Wed Jul 01 1998 - 01:49:29 PDT

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    On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
    
    > Bugtraq readers who haven't been following the Linux security audit
    > project (from whence most of the Red Hat fixes came - and other vendors
    > will I assume be issuing identical updates) might like to take a look
    > at how their own OS handles pointing the following at files only root
    > can read and running setuid apps. (or setgid usage in some cases such as
    > Mutt)
    >         TZ
    >         TERMINFO
    >         TERMCAP
    
    Add LANG, all LC_*, and various LD_* (esp. LD_*_OUTPUT) to the list.
    
    --Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
    "You can't be truly paranoid unless you're sure they have already got you."
    



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