set-uid root /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugin-config

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Mon Apr 14 19:57:56 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 15:46 -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> Why is this program set-uid root?
> 
> ls -l /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugin-config  
> -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 60048 2008-03-11
> 10:02 /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugin-config*
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442065

Probably so that it can create files in /usr/lib/mozilla when a user
downloads a plugin via their browser.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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