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1998 Apr 28
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[Debian 2.0] /usr/bin/suidexec gives root access
...Just invoke /usr/bin/suidexec <your program> /path/to/script - it will happily execute your program with euid = 0. This is completely sufficient for doing arbitrary damage on the system. Additionally, suidexec will fail with shells which close all but the "standard" file descriptorson startup: /proc/self/fd/<N> (which is the file descriptor suidexec has opened for the shell script in question) will have vanished after this. I am actually considering this a feature, as it avoids some of the $HOME/.cshrc related standard exploits. SOLUTION: Just drop suidexec from the dist...