Re: majordomo 1.94.5 does not fix all vulnerabilities

From: Dave Barr (barrat_private)
Date: Tue Jan 25 2000 - 06:54:39 PST

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    Brock Sides wrote:
    > Whereas majordomo 1.94.5 does fix the bug in resend, discovered by Brock
    > Tellier, that permits execution of arbitrary code as user majordomo, it
    > apparently does not fix the other bug in the script majordomo, that
    > permits execution of arbitrary config files as user majordomo:
    
    While people need to certainly be made clear of this, this is entirely
    intentional.
    
    The cleanest fix to the problem of the majordomo programs running
    arbitrary code as the majordomo user/group is to fix the permissions
    of the wrapper so it is mode o-rx.  (or that the Majordomo home
    directory is mode mode 750)  Any other proposed solutions were
    fraught with race conditions, partial fixes, and just plain uglinesses.
    
    This is clearly explained in the INSTALL document in 1.94.5 and
    re-emphasized on the Majordomo FAQ.
    
    --Dave
    Majordomo FAQ maintainer
    



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