Bug#894667: beep bug

2018-04-26 Thread Neal P. Murphy
How similar is beep to beep2? I use beep2 on Smoothwall Express. It is not installed suid root. Rather, I changed beep2's default output device to /dev/tty13 (would be just as easy to use tty63) and changed the perms on that TTY to 622. Without suid root, beep2 can only open files for input or o

Bug#894667: beep bug

2018-04-04 Thread rain1
Hello. After analysis of the diff it in unclear what exactly the race condition bug is and how it would constitute a privileged escalation. Please could somebody provide an explanation of what the race condition is, and how it is a security issue rather than just being a regular bug. so we c