On 9/4/06, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 08:48:26PM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> On 9/1/06, Andrew Pantyukhin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On 9/1/06, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 10:19:24AM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >> > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 06:15:18PM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> >> > > Under no circumstances should a port install world-writable
> >> > > files or directories. In most cases this opens the system to all
> >> > > kinds of attacks. A simple grep brings the following list of
> >> > > makefiles to attention. I imagine that samba ports are
> >> > > somehow justified, as for the other ones, I hope secteam and
> >> > > committers will do something about them.
> >> >
> >> > The install process will warn about this (as well as group writable),
> >> > so you can also grep for the warning message in the pointyhat logs.
> >>
> >> Here's the list of world-writable from the last i386 6.x build:
> >
> >Thanks, Kris! I'll be working on patches for some of them
> >this weekend.
>
> Actually... I wonder if maintainers were already notified about
> this. I prefer to send out mass mail, wait for a little while and
> go fix some of the ports. Generating individual patches is a
> bit overstrenuous for me.
I haven't notified them. Most of those files are harmless though
(score files for games). All of the pips* ones probably have a common
source too.
Well, a most innocent world-writable file can bring a
system down. While that would require a combimation
of other unfortunate circumstances, I believe an attempt
to eliminate one factor is not a lost effort.
BTW, I wonder why www/phpmyfaq is not in your list.
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