On Wednesday 18 July 2001 12:53, David Walluck wrote:
> Claudio wrote:
> > CHANGELOG for X-CD-Roast 0.98 alpha 9
> > 18.07.01:
> >
> > * RELEASED X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha9
> >
> > 17.07.01:
> >
> > * update the writeable flag in HD setup
> > * final touches to non-root wrapper
> >
> > We could finally use this nice program as non-root!!! :)))
> > C.
>
> Wekk, I know it's safest for Mandrake to disallow any SUID binaries in
> rpms, but when we are talking about a media player that does not let the
> remote world connect to it, is there really much harm in it?
Yes, there's harm in it. Local root privilege escalation attacks are pretty
bad.
mordy
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Mordy Ovits
Network Engineer
Bloomberg L.P.
