Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: odd chown difference between 2.0 and 2.1pre kernels | Date | Mon, 11 Jan 1999 15:40:02 +0000 (GMT) |
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> In message <19990109215152.C32046@kitenet.net>, Joey Hess writes: > +----- > | On a 2.1pre4 machine: > | root@kite:~>ls -l foo > | -rwsrw-r-- 1 root joey 0 Jan 9 17:13 foo* > | root@kite:~> chown root.root foo; ls -l foo > | -rwsrw-r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 9 17:13 foo* > +--->8 > > GAK!!! Security flaw here, methinks. chown should unconditionally clear > setuid and setgid.
Except when done by root
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