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- This effects Slackware 3.0 and possibly other distributions, I haven't
- checked others yet.
-
- If you mount the CDROM, it is mounted SUID-enabled. This is bad as many
- CDs include things such as the live filesystem on the Slackware CD. Thus,
- all a cracker has to do is run /cdrom/live/usr/bin/splitvt or exploit some
- other horrible old SUID-bug and root is obtained.
-
- Fix this by changing the line in /etc/fstab which reads:
- /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro 1 1
- to read:
- /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 nosuid ro 1 1
- to fix, and then
- umount /cdrom ; mount /cdrom
- to activate
-