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SubjectRe: [masq] 1st virus in Linux :( (fwd)
On Fri, 7 Feb 1997, Neil Moore wrote:

> > On Fri, 7 Feb 1997 tyson@rwii.com wrote:
> > I don't agree. Doom has a known bug which allows any user on your system
> > to get root if doom is installed setuid root. Every Linux distribution
> > I've ever used installs Doom setuid root, and RedHat has only recently
> > released a patch to correct this. (The patch doesn't fix doom, just
> > removes the setuid bit.)
>
> Why not just delete it?

Doom is actually one of two programs: xdoom or sdoom. I think there is
also a framebuffer version of xdoom. (That's the case in quake) sdoom
uses svgalib and requires that suid root is set. xdoom works w/o suid.
svgalib sucks anyway...

- John
<solitude@johnf.reshall.ksu.edu>
<jsf8471@ksu.edu>

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