Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Feb 1997 09:27:56 -0500 | From | Neil Moore <> | Subject | Re: [masq] 1st virus in Linux :( (fwd) |
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> > 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...
I meant, "Why not delete the executable you would be removing suid from?" I meant sdoom here, as (hopefully) no one installs xdoom suid root anyway.
-- -Neil Moore http://www.sfhs.floyd.k12.ky.us/~amethyst/ (finger amethyst@valjean.sfhs.floyd.k12.ky.us for my Geek Code)
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