Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com>
To: "gentoo-user@l.g.o" <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Risks of making traceroute suid root
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 23:49:16
Message-Id: CAC=wYCEof5ZBqyFc2ZRg1FDtzPVD6e803NBx6Es-St7unoVqtQ@mail.gmail.com
1 I want to allow some fairly well trusted users the ablilty to do traces
2 with icmp. I can give them sudo, but how high is the risk of making
3 traceroute suid root? AFAIK making text editors or anything that has an
4 ability to run shell commands suid root is effectively giving them root
5 access, but other than exploiting vulnerabilities in traceroute itself, are
6 there any other issues?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Risks of making traceroute suid root "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-user] Risks of making traceroute suid root Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>