Summary: | Update security/clamav-devel and secure socket | ||||||
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Product: | Ports & Packages | Reporter: | rob | ||||
Component: | Individual Port(s) | Assignee: | freebsd-ports-bugs (Nobody) <ports-bugs> | ||||
Status: | Closed FIXED | ||||||
Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||||||
Priority: | Normal | ||||||
Version: | Latest | ||||||
Hardware: | Any | ||||||
OS: | Any | ||||||
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Description
rob
2004-05-24 14:30:14 UTC
Rob Evers wrote:
> Chmod 770 the socket directory
What is the purpose of making the directory group writable and
the pid unreadable for other processes?
-Oliver
> Rob Evers wrote: > >> Chmod 770 the socket directory > > What is the purpose of making the directory group writable and > the pid unreadable for other processes? > > -Oliver > Mmm, I did this because the clamd socket is rwxrwxrwx, so every user on the system can read the socket, but I guess this is not a good solution ;-) Rob Evers rob@debank.tv wrote: >>Rob Evers wrote: >> >>>Chmod 770 the socket directory >> >>What is the purpose of making the directory group writable and >>the pid unreadable for other processes? >> >>-Oliver > > Mmm, I did this because the clamd socket is rwxrwxrwx, so every user on > the system can read the socket, but I guess this is not a good solution > ;-) Do you want to guard against a local denial-of-service attack, or what is the problem with that? -Oliver > rob@debank.tv wrote: > >>>Rob Evers wrote: >>> >>>>Chmod 770 the socket directory >>> >>>What is the purpose of making the directory group writable and >>>the pid unreadable for other processes? >>> >>>-Oliver >> >> Mmm, I did this because the clamd socket is rwxrwxrwx, so every user on >> the system can read the socket, but I guess this is not a good solution >> ;-) > > Do you want to guard against a local denial-of-service attack, or what is > the problem with that? > > -Oliver > No, but I want to be sure that scanned e-mails can't be read by 'normal' system users. Rob State Changed From-To: open->closed Committed, thanks! |