[10473] in bugtraq
Re: Buffer overflow in ftpd and locate bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Pitman)
Fri May 7 13:46:36 1999
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Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 01:31:22 -0400
Reply-To: Andrew Pitman <ap1@TORCH.ROWAN.EDU>
From: Andrew Pitman <ap1@TORCH.ROWAN.EDU>
X-To: Eugeny Kuzakov <kev@LAB321.RU>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
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Eugeny,
Don't panic!!
I'm CC'ing this to Bugtraq in case some aren't aware of this (very simple)
solution:
use rm -d (as superuser) on the top-level directory. Then run
fsck to free the unreferenced inodes below it in the 'tree'.
Andrew
--
"The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so
many to choose from."
(Andrew S. Tanenbaum)
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Andrew Pitman | Management Information Systems,
Unix System Administrator/ | Technology Operations Support
Webmaster | at Rowan University
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On Tue, 4 May 1999, Eugeny Kuzakov wrote:
> On Sun, 2 May 1999, Przemyslaw Frasunek wrote:
>
> > Example:
> >
> > I'm creating a directory structure with 300 subdirectories, each
> > 255 chars length (source in attachment, also it's possible to do it
> > via ftpd, because it calls mkdir() and chdir()).
> I tryed it under 2.2-stable.
> /usr/bin/find -- yes, core dumpes.
> /bin/rm can not delete this tree...8-[ ]
> I don't know how to remove it....
>
> --
> Best wishes, Eugeny Kuzakov
> Laboratory 321 ( Omsk, Russia )
> kev@lab321.ru
> ICQ#: 5885106
>
