Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 7 Feb 1997 17:39:22 -0500 | From | Neil Moore <> | Subject | Re: [masq] 1st virus in Linux :( (fwd) |
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> 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?
-- -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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