bin/32072: setuid w/o immutable flag

Colin Percival cperciva at FreeBSD.org
Wed Feb 11 07:41:03 PST 2004


Synopsis: setuid w/o immutable flag

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: cperciva
State-Changed-When: Wed Feb 11 07:37:00 PST 2004
State-Changed-Why: 
This is not a useful security mechanism against an attacker
who already has root access.  Feel free to read the archives
and/or post to freebsd-security for a more in-depth discussion
about the (lack of) merits of securelevel.


http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=32072


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