> I haven't seen any _obvious_ ways that these could be dangerous for security, > but I'm naturally suspicious of any setuid/setgid program that crashes. Has > anyone got any further info on these programs? I sent this to James already, but forgot to cc the list. Patch 101889-01 says- Keywords: ff.core security hole Synopsis: OpenWindows 3.3: filemgr forked execuatble ff.core has a security hole. Date: Aug/30/94 Solaris Release: 2.3 SunOS Release: 5.3 Unbundled Product: OpenWindows Unbundled Release: 3.3 BugId's fixed with this patch: 1171394 Files included with this patch: /usr/openwin/bin/ff.core Problem Description: 1171394 filemgr forked execuatble ff.core has a security hole. johno - John Orthoefer | Take this out and a Unix Demon will dog your steps from <jco@bbn.com> | now until the time_t's wrap around. 617-873-6188 | -- Curse from the tunefs(8) man page source