Subject: the games saga: the battle continues.
To: None <tech-security@NetBSD.ORG>
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
List: tech-security
Date: 11/20/1997 01:44:53
so, after thinking all was swell, i realised this:
so, if someone can break into the games group, we still have the
following problem:
- they alter something in /var/games ..
- some program that reads a file in /var/games happens to
have a buffer overrun...whoops, i've now broken into the
person who runs this programs account.
*sigh*
also, all the programs that *need* to be setuid (which i am now
fixing), and thus need to be checked for other exploits. (prior,
all games were setuid games!).
.mrg.