Should samba become_root() before calling panic action?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 01:40, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> On 9 Apr 2003, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
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> > If a user can kill an smbd then we have much bigger problems!
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> But we have had these exact problems recently so it would be 
> foolish to think the case never exists.

In any case, a panic action should be written with the assumption that
an attacker can cause a crash at will - as without smbd bugs, there
would be no need for a panic action :-).  

As that attack/weakness could just as easily be in root-run part of
smbd, I think becoming root again would not cause any additional danger.

Andrew Bartlett

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