[11118] in bugtraq
Re: Troff dangerous.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (CyberPsychotic)
Sun Jul 25 16:19:26 1999
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Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 17:29:56 +0600
Reply-To: fygrave@tigerteam.net
From: CyberPsychotic <mlists@GIZMO.KYRNET.KG>
X-To: Pawel Wilk <siewca@pld.org.pl>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
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~ If you want your system safe,
~ don't look as root
~ at manual page.
~
with accurately set permissions for man page directories, non-privileged
users shouldn't be able to add manual pages to the system (if they are
able to, system is whacked anyway), so I take this threat merely as
another trojan possibility - quite uncommon one indeed.
F.
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