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Re: [linux-security] ncpmount/ncpumount
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Baba Z Buehler)
Thu Oct 24 13:41:07 1996
Reply-to: Baba Z Buehler <baba@beckman.uiuc.edu>
From: Baba Z Buehler <baba@beckman.uiuc.edu>
To: Runar Jensen <zarq@1stnet.com>
cc: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 13 Oct 1996 19:07:32 CDT."
<199610140007.TAA32256@dancer.1stnet.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:27:48 -0500
Runar Jensen <zarq@1stnet.com> writes:
> I haven't had a chance to look at the source code yet, but it appears that
> ncpmount and ncpumount suffer from exactly the same problem that mount and
> umount did. In fact, the mount exploit that was so widely circulated works
> with ncpumount with no modifications.
>
Wouldn't the best thing to do be to roll ncp(un)mount, smb(un)mount into the
standard Linux mount command?
b
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