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Subject: Re: gtk+ security hole.
From: Rob Mosher (rmosherLIGHTNING.NET)
Date: Wed Jan 03 2001 - 09:08:33 CST


my mistake on this one, should be:
if(geteuid() == getuid())

Rob Mosher wrote:

> A simple fix to this would be to drop priveleges before calling
> gtk_init(), another easy fix is to modify gtk itself, to do this you
> need to make the following modification of gtkmain.c. In gtk-1.2.8 its
> at approximately line 215, you have:
>
> env_string = getenv ("GTK_MODULES");
>
> add the following line above it:
> if(geteuid() != getuid())

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Rob Mosher
Lead Programmer / Systems Engineer
Lightning Internet Services, LLC