World-writable files installed by ports

[Andrew Pantyukhin]

On 9/1/06, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> 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.