Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : rsync (MDKSA-2002:024)

Ethan Benson discovered a bug in rsync where the supplementary groups that the rsync daemon runs as such as root would not be removed from the server process after changing to the specified unprivileged uid and gid. This seems only serious if rsync is called using 'rsync --daemon' from the comman...

LPRng 3.6.x - Failure To Drop Supplementary Groups

LPRng 3.6.x - Failure To Drop Supplementary Groups / source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2865/info The LPRng software is an enhanced, extended, and portable implementation of the Berkeley LPR print spooler functionality. When the LPRng daemon is initialized, it fails to drop its supplementa...

LPRng 3.6.x - Failure To Drop Supplementary Groups

/ source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2865/info The LPRng software is an enhanced, extended, and portable implementation of the Berkeley LPR print spooler functionality. When the LPRng daemon is initialized, it fails to drop its supplementary groups. As a result, the daemon and any child...