I was browsing the SecurityFocus vulnerability database and found the following: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9903 "Because the make utility is reported to run with setGID root privileges, a local attacker may potentially exploit this condition to gain access to the root group"
Is this true ? I cannot believe that IBM has an setGID root-bit on the make utillity. This goes against all security practices I've ever heard. Are there people that have more info on this vulnerability or is this a hoax?
make is *not* setgid on my AIX 4.3.3 ML 11 box:
# echo `uname` `oslevel -r` AIX 4330-11 # ls -l /usr/ccs/bin/make -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 90362 Sep 26 2002 /usr/ccs/bin/make # lslpp -L bos.adt.base bos.adt.base 4.3.3.78 C Base Application Development Toolkit
Out of curiosity, I pulled apart the bos.adt fileset from the 4.3.3 distribution media. In the bos.adt.base.inventory file, make is specified as mode 555 and is not setgid there either:
/usr/ccs/bin/make: owner = bin group = bin mode = 555
I guess it's possible that one of the filesets between 4.3.3.0 and 4.3.3.78 is different but I'm not about to find out...
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