Re: Security vulnerability in automake (understood, agreed)

2002-06-10 Thread Allan Clark
Lawrence; I see that the key here is that the attacker is a user with local access to a system (be it by login, security hole in another binary giving shell access as that binary's user, etc). The admin merely runs the innocent package, and due to the attacker's symlinks, causes damage to his ow

Patch to harden config.guess [was Re: Security vulnerability in automake]

2002-06-10 Thread Lawrence Teo
Here's a patch that I wrote to address that security "hole" in config.guess. I sent it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on June 4, 2002 but have not heard from them since. The patch works with GNU config.guess 2002-05-29, available at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/config.guess The patch tries to ensure

Re: Security vulnerability in automake

2002-06-10 Thread Lawrence Teo
>Effort to reduce this kind of a security "hole" are quite fruitless, so >long as I >or anyone can build a ./configure that will simply "rm -fr /*"; Please correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that again inaccurately assume what David pointed out: that the attacker and distributor/provider are

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Automake 1.6.1b

2002-06-10 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
Hi! Here is a snapshot of the 1.6 branch of Automake. ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/automake-1.6.1b.tar.gz ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/automake-1.6.1b.tar.bz2 Please test it and report any problem you have, so we can release 1.6.2 soon. New in 1.6.1b: * Many bug fixe

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Re: Security vulnerability in automake

2002-06-10 Thread Allan Clark
Effort to reduce this kind of a security "hole" are quite fruitless, so long as I or anyone can build a ./configure that will simply "rm -fr /*"; nevertheless, I do support David's comment: > 2. A non-root mindset should be encouraged. Indeed, I'd support a case > for a default of "if root th

Re: Security vulnerability in automake

2002-06-10 Thread David Lee
On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Bernd Jendrissek wrote: > On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 04:50:23PM -0400, Lawrence Teo wrote: > > My point is, if config.guess can be hardened against such potential symlink > > attacks, why shouldn't it be? Of course, it would be great to educate all > > admins not to build stuff

Re: Including pre-defined .mk files

2002-06-10 Thread Frederico Faria
They aren't created by configure. These are Makefiles of a thirty-party product that I want to link with my application. Thank you, Frederico Faria. Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > > >>> "Frederico" == Frederico Faria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Frederico> I have any .mk files that

object files

2002-06-10 Thread Baris Simsek
this may be related with automake, sorry i got this error gcc -g -O2 -o isoqlog Data.o Dir.o Html.o ... gcc: Data.o: No such file or directory ... gcc: No input files specified *** Error code 1 what is wrong? Makefile.am -- bin_PROGRAMS = isoqlog isoqlog_SOURCES = Data.c Dir.c