SUID binaries in the repo

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Fri Oct 26 13:53:24 UTC 2007


On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:47:31 -0400
Josh Bressers <bressers at redhat.com> wrote:

> Within Red Hat I care for a suid whitelist.  If it's not on the list,
> I have to be convinced that it should be.  It works rather well
> honestly.  It would probably make sense to give this task to the
> Fedora Security Response Team as it will be them cleaning up the mess
> after a "suid gone wild" event.

Can you help us draft up a new package review rule that will bring suid
things to your attention?  I think rpmlint may point out suid files, or
could be made to easily.  What's missing is a point of contact or a
bugzilla keyword or blocker list we set or something.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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