Marc Deslauriers wrote: > Synopsis: Updated rp-pppoe package fixes security issue > Advisory ID: FLSA:152794 This is a totally bogus vulnerability, as I wrote in my response on http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0564 In fact, this so-called "fix" might tempt people to run rp-pppoe SUID-root, which is a Bad Thing, because there are probably tons of other reasons why a SUID-root rp-pppoe is dangerous. rp-pppoe 3.6 was released a while ago. It has a proper fix for SUID-ness. I recommend people use that instead of distro versions with dubious "security patches" NOTE: I have set the return path to <devnull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> to avoid hundreds of responses from Bugtraq readers' broken auto-responders. To reply to me, reply to <dfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Regards, David.
