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Re: smbd remote file creation vulnerability

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michal Zalewski)
Thu Jun 28 16:33:22 2001

Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 20:11:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@bos.bindview.com>
To: Joachim Blaabjerg <styx@mailbox.as>
Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Joachim Blaabjerg wrote:

> No, not directly, but if your `su` uses PAM to authenticate users and
> PAM reacts to the spaces in the beginning of the passwd file, it
> surely has something to do with PAM. To check whether `su` uses PAM or
> not, try "ldd `which su`|grep libpam"

/etc/passwd is not the only place you might want to modify. Think of
rc.local or anything like that.

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