Hello, I became aware of bug #164283 that seems to me security related and -- even worse -- affects woody. I have not been able to exploit it easily (by burning /etc/shadow to a CD or something like that) but it really should be fixed IMHO. The attached patch should fix woody's package.
Torsten -- Torsten Werner Dresden University of Technology mailto:email@;twerner42.de telephone: +49 (351) 463 36711 http://www.twerner42.de/ telefax: +49 (351) 463 36809
diff -ru cdrtools-1.10/debian/cdrecord.postinst cdrtool-fix/debian/cdrecord.postinst --- cdrtools-1.10/debian/cdrecord.postinst Thu Nov 14 09:42:03 2002 +++ cdrtool-fix/debian/cdrecord.postinst Thu Nov 14 09:43:52 2002 @@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ RET=false db_get cdrecord/SUID_bit if [ "$RET" = "true" ]; then - cdrecord_mod=4755 + cdrecord_mod=4750 chown root.cdrom /usr/bin/cdrecord - chmod 4755 /usr/bin/cdrecord + chmod 4750 /usr/bin/cdrecord else chown root.root /usr/bin/cdrecord chmod 0755 /usr/bin/cdrecord