Hi,
this bug came up as a candidate for the Bug of the Day[1]
Am Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 02:26:35PM +0200 schrieb Patrik Schindler:
> kernel interfaces for accessing raw sockets may only be accessed by root.
>
> As a fix, I recommend chmod'ing etherwake as suid, remove excess other-rights
> and restrict usage to group members of whatever group you configure. The
> latter is for reducing the possibility of security implications regarding
> etherwake and suid.
>
> @Pierre: I can write a patch against postinst if you want. Let me know.
If you would provide a patch I'd happily apply it and upload the
package. Alternatively you might want to provide a MR to the repository
which was migrated to Salsa[2]. Please ping me in both cases since I do
neither watch this bug nor the repository.
Kind regards
Andreas.
[1] https://salsa.debian.org/tille/tiny_qa_tools/-/wikis/Tiny-QA-tasks
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/etherwake
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