Bug 2618

Summary:	xterm is suid root
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Cody Pisto <cody>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) <azarah>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	swift
Priority:	High
Version:	1.1a
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Cody Pisto 2002-05-09 12:40:57 UTC

xterm is installed suid root on the xfree 4.2.0-r9 ebuild
this is a security issue, and is not needed!

Comment 1 Joachim Blaabjerg (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-05-09 13:11:43 UTC

It shouldn't work as normal if you use the -ls option, as it needs to be suid
root to write the utmp/wtmp files upon login. Whether this is necessary or not,
and if this should be default behaviour in Gentoo is not for me to decide. :)

Comment 2 jakd 2002-05-09 13:25:05 UTC

it will happily not write to {u,w}tmp and go on its way, similar to the other
terms in the system.  the others i've played with (aterm,rxvt,eterm) do not set
suid; we should go for consistency and security.

Comment 3 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-05-17 10:55:02 UTC

*** Bug 2800 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-09-08 04:58:40 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 7630 ***