On Wed Jul 23, 2003 at 02:34:09PM -0700, Bryan Whitehead wrote: > >I hope someone from Mandrake is still reading this list. I got the > >advisary for the new kernel in my mail, and installed the new kernel. > >Since, then, any number of processes which used to write files that were > >writable only by themselves (leafnode as user news, mailman as user mail > >and so on) are now writing their files in a world readable setting. My > >security logs this morning started reporting files in /var/spool/news, > >/var/lock/subsys, /var/run, /var/lib/mailman/lists and so on as being > >writable. Checking those directories, I find sure enough that everything > >is -rw-rw-rw- -- clearly, this is not acceptable! Can someone please > >look into this and fix it and issue a new kernel? This needs to not > >continue to happen. When I su to the user IDs in question and do a umask > >command, I see 0022 like it should be - so I can't see any reason why this > >should be happening. > > I have the same problem: [...]
Thanks, Bryan. This helps. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ Online Security Resource Book; http://linsec.ca/ "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD : 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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