Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Dec 1999 11:39:21 -0800 (PST) | From | Dan Hollis <> | Subject | Re: Unexecutable Stack / Buffer Overflow Exploits... |
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On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > I would like to see an option that does the folowing: > 1) Let "normal user" programs bind to ports < 1024 > ONLY IF > 2) that program was given this "capability" by root, for example > by means of an file-system flag.
Actually someone made a patch to give traditional permissions to sockets <1024, so you could chown/chgrp/chmod them to specific users. Far cleaner solution in my opinion.
-Dan
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