Its not s[ug]id anything on the three machines I just checked.  Are
you sure you didn't set that bit yourself?

Justin

On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 02:15:46AM -0800, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> Package: mpg321
> Version: 0.2.10.3
> Severity: critical
> Tags: security
> 
> mpg312 is installed setuid root probably to do scheduler magic or
> whatever (didn't check).  Anyhow, this means you can invoke it using
> "mpg321 -w /etc/passwd foo/mp3" or whatever.
> 
> For now I would suggest we remove the suid bit (clearly this has
> issues to, but those are less sever than being able to trash arbitrary
> files as non-root).


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