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From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu)
Subject: AIX 4.3.3 has make sgid 0? 

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 15:16:15 GMT, BoneMachine <bonemach@....lonestar.org>  said:
> Hello
> I was browsing the SecurityFocus vulnerability database and found the following:
> http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9903
> "Because the make utility is reported to run with setGID root privileges, a local attacker may potentially exploit this condition to gain access to the root group"
> 
> Is this true ? I cannot believe that IBM has an setGID root-bit on the make utillity. This goes against all security practices I've ever heard.

Looks like a crock to me.  We still have one AIX 4.3.3 box left around:

[~]1 uname
AIX
[~]1 oslevel
4.3.3.0
[~]1 ls -l /bin/make
lrwxrwxrwx   1 bin      bin           17 Feb 12 2003  /bin/make -> /usr/ccs/bin/make
[~]1 ls -lL /bin/make                                        
-r-xr-xr-x   1 bin      bin        90234 Jul 18 2001  /bin/make
[~]1 lslpp -L bos.adt.base
  Fileset                      Level  State  Description
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  bos.adt.base              4.3.3.77    C    Base Application Development
                                             Toolkit

So if it was ever sgid 0, IBM fixed that sometime before July 2001.

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