GID Games Exploits

[Stephen Major]

Heh, was not familiar with it. I heard there were underground exploits, I
had no idea of the severity so I posted it here to hear feedback, so as long
as there is nothing to worry about cool.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mathieu Arnold [mailto:mat at mat.cc] 
Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 1:15 AM
To: Kris Kennaway; Stephen Major
Cc: freebsd-security at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: GID Games Exploits

+-le 16/10/2005 00:47 -0400, Kris Kennaway écrivait :
| On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 09:39:27PM -0700, Stephen Major wrote:
|> It has come to my attention that there are quite a few local exploits
|> circling around in the private sector for GID Games.
|> 
|>  
|> 
|> Several of the games have vanilla stack overflows in them which can lead
to
|> elevation of privileges if successfully exploited.
| 
| Big deal..that's why they're setgid games (which can only write to
| game data files) and not setuid anything important :-)

It means that I can change my own score to something better, that's very
important :-)

-- 
Mathieu Arnold