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Re: Potential security problem with mtr

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rogier Wolff)
Tue Mar 7 08:22:20 2000

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Date:         Sat, 4 Mar 2000 00:40:38 +0100
Reply-To: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BITWIZARD.NL>
From: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BITWIZARD.NL>
X-To:         Viktor Fougstedt <viktor@DTEK.CHALMERS.SE>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
In-Reply-To:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.10002142004440.13991-100000@demen.dtek.chalmers.se> from Viktor Fougstedt at "Mar 3,
              2000 04:42:24 pm"

Viktor Fougstedt wrote:
> mtr-0.28 seems to be a standard package in some Linux distributions,
> but it is not known whether it is installed setuid-root.

0.41 is current.

> The authors have been contacted, but no reply has been received. The
> latest version is from Aug 19 1999, and I am uncertain whether mtr is
> still being actively developed.

I'm the maintainer. I haven't been contacted. Viktor, may I ask you to
do your homework a bit better next time?

				Roger.

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