cons.saver not suid root

Leonard den Ottolander leonard at den.ottolander.nl
Wed Jun 8 16:25:37 UTC 2005


Hi Jakub,

On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 16:40, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> cons.saver should not be setuid root, it should be setuid to whatever
> user owns /dev/vcsa* devices.  Ideally there is a vcsa user that
> just owns these devices and cons.saver.

Could you maybe go into the details if and if how a setuid-ed root
cons.saver could be abused?

Leonard.

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