RE: CERT Advisory CA-2002-28 Trojan Horse Sendmail Distribution

"Jason Gurtz" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lfs.security
Message-ID <000c01c26f3a$e93bec80$0201a8c0@echinops>

> This forked  process allows  the  intruder  to open a shell
> running in the context  of  the  user  who  built  the
> Sendmail software.

Ahh, another warning I see to be sure one is not building their software
as root

~Jason

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