Package: bsdutils
Version: 1:2.29.2-1+deb9u1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/logger

Dear Maintainer,

I was surprised to find that I can write anything I want to
/var/log/syslog using the /usr/bin/logger program as a non-root user.
My user account has no permissions on /var/log/syslog, it can't even
read it.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.6
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= 
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages bsdutils depends on:
ii  libc6        2.24-11+deb9u3
ii  libsystemd0  232-25+deb9u6

Versions of packages bsdutils recommends:
ii  bsdmainutils  9.0.12+nmu1

bsdutils suggests no packages.

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