[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r24378 - nixos/trunk/modules/security

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:31:16AM +0200, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
> On 10/20/2010 11:29 AM, Michael Raskin wrote:
> 
> > Author: raskin
> > Date: Wed Oct 20 09:29:02 2010
> > New Revision: 24378
> > URL: https://svn.nixos.org/websvn/nix/?rev=24378&sc=1
> > 
> > Log:
> > To prevent glibc bug exploitation, make setuid-wrappers unreadable to non-root users
> 
> Can you elaborate on this Glibc bug?

>From what we talked on irc, I imagine Michael talks about this:
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15274/