From 2f593094f0c4f828fd81a3b052ee426135135694 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jsm <jsm@NetBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 09:02:20 +0000
Subject: Security improvements for games (largely from or inspired by
 OpenBSD).

Games which run setgid from dm, but don't need to, should drop their
privileges at startup.

Games which have a scorefile should open it at startup, then drop all
privileges leaving just the open writable file descriptor.  If the
game can invoke subprocesses, this should be made close-on-exec.

Games with scorefiles should make sure they do not get a file
descriptor < 3.  (Otherwise, they could get confused and corrupt the
scorefile when using stdin, stdout or stderr.)

Some old setuid revokes from the days of setuid games change into gid
revokes.
---
 quiz/quiz.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'quiz')

diff --git a/quiz/quiz.c b/quiz/quiz.c
index 96ede113..aec0ae78 100644
--- a/quiz/quiz.c
+++ b/quiz/quiz.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/*	$NetBSD: quiz.c,v 1.14 1999/09/08 21:17:56 jsm Exp $	*/
+/*	$NetBSD: quiz.c,v 1.15 1999/09/12 09:02:22 jsm Exp $	*/
 
 /*-
  * Copyright (c) 1991, 1993
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ __COPYRIGHT("@(#) Copyright (c) 1991, 1993\n\
 #if 0
 static char sccsid[] = "@(#)quiz.c	8.3 (Berkeley) 5/4/95";
 #else
-__RCSID("$NetBSD: quiz.c,v 1.14 1999/09/08 21:17:56 jsm Exp $");
+__RCSID("$NetBSD: quiz.c,v 1.15 1999/09/12 09:02:22 jsm Exp $");
 #endif
 #endif /* not lint */
 
@@ -88,6 +88,9 @@ main(argc, argv)
 	int ch;
 	const char *indexfile;
 
+	/* Revoke setgid privileges */
+	setregid(getgid(), getgid());
+
 	indexfile = _PATH_QUIZIDX;
 	while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "i:t")) != -1)
 		switch(ch) {
-- 
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