Setuid

Revision 8 as of 2007-10-31 21:21:39

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This is a list of setuid applications that need investigation. See the [https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-hardened/2007-October/000217.html mailinglist post] about this for more information.

Source Package Name

setuid Files

De-rooted

Capabilities

Changes Sent Upstream

Comments

iputils

/bin/ping, /bin/ping6, /bin/arping, /usr/bin/traceroute6.iputils

yes

possible

UNKNOWN

fping

/bin/fping

needed

no

Checks: if ( geteuid() ) {... exit(3); Will patch and send upstream -JeffSchroeder

mtr

/usr/bin/mtr

yes

possible

n/a

n/a

util-linux

/bin/mount, /bin/umount

needed

no

n/a

Checks: if (getuid () != geteuid ()). Should check for CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability