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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!voskovec.radio.cz!news.radio.cz!CESspool!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!super.zippo.com!zdc!szdc!szdc-e!news From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 10:17:59 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 19 Message-ID: <32FB47A7.2781E494@freebsd.org> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <KETIL-ytqiv47v56j.fsf@pinro.imr.no> <5daavp$8lp@panix2.panix.com> <KETIL-ytqbu9yfheu.fsf@imr.no> <5dfcpj$t45@agate.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:82803 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2361 comp.os.linux.misc:156807 Nick Kralevich wrote: > > In article <KETIL-ytqbu9yfheu.fsf@imr.no>, Ketil Z Malde <ketil@imr.no> wrote: > >Except for a couple of emulations? Perhaps BSD is bug free, and has > >always been so. > > I'm suprised that no one has mentioned that all current FreeBSD releases > have a bug that allows ANY suid program to be used to gain root access. > Also, along with mailing list support, please review the following: http://www.freebsd.org/newsflash.html This contains the latest FreeBSD news, including info about the bug. John dyson@freebsd.org