ongrep

A cleaned up fork of ngrep for OpenBSD
git clone git://git.sgregoratto.me/ongrep
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commit d1028bcc587c909e8a2be202f6679d0f9e50be34
parent c6f775fb648ebb5451a5df5308336a4da76160c3
Author: Jordan Ritter <jpr5@darkridge.com>
Date:   Mon, 29 Dec 2003 18:22:32 +0000

added option -R, to allow users to consciously avoid any dropprivs if they
don't want it.

Diffstat:
Mngrep.8 | 17+++++++++++++++++
Mngrep.h | 1-
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ngrep.8 b/ngrep.8 @@ -96,6 +96,23 @@ a packet is matched. Print a timestamp in the form of +S.UUUUUU, indicating the delta between packet matches. +.IP -R +Do not try to drop privileges to the DROPPRIVS_USER. + +ngrep makes no effort to validate input from live or offline sources +as it is focused more on performance and handling large amounts of +data than protocol correctness, which is most often a fair assumption +to make. However, sometimes it matters and thus as a rule ngrep will +try to be defensive and drop any root privileges it might have. + +There exist scenarios where this behaviour can become an obstacle, so +this option is provided to end-users who want to disable this feature, +but must do so with an understanding of the risks. Packets can be +randomly malformed or even specifically designed to overflow sniffers +and take control of them, and revoking root privileges is currently +the only risk mitigation ngrep employs against such an attack. Use +this option and turn it off at your own risk. + .IP "-c cols" Explicitly set the console width to ``cols''. Note that this is the console width, and not the full width of what ngrep prints out as diff --git a/ngrep.h b/ngrep.h @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ #define VERSION "1.42-cvs" - #define ETHHDR_SIZE 14 #define TOKENRING_SIZE 22 #define PPPHDR_SIZE 4