Re: FIX: World-writeable files repair script

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>]

Keith Owens wrote:
 
> Add  /lib/modules/*/modules.dep.  If that file is world writable you
> have a local root exploit.  Due to the kernel bug, this has occurred on
> Slackware installs.  As part of that exploit, people reported that
> /var/log/wtmp and /var/run/utmp are also created with the wrong mask.
> Not exploitable AFAIK but you can hide tasks if utmp is world writable.

modules.dep comes from the Red Hat kernel RPMs, and it doesn't appear to
be re-generated or modified during the install, so I think we're fine
here.

-Eric

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