On Mon, 7 Dec 2004, Mandrake Linux Security Team wrote: > Max Vozeler discovered a vulnerability in pppoe, part of the rp-pppoe > package. When pppoe is running setuid root, an attacker can overwrite > any file on the system. As the author of rp-pppoe, I take exception to this being reported as a "vulnerability". pppoe is NOT designed to run setuid-root. You may as well claim that a setuid "cat" has a vulnerability that lets it read arbitrary files. Any Linux distro that installs pppoe setuid root is just plain dangerous. -- David.
