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. Kris
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