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Re: Exploiting Zolaris 2.4 ?? :)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leif Hedstrom)
Sun Aug 4 18:21:36 1996

Date: 	Sun, 4 Aug 1996 14:29:11 -0700
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From: Leif Hedstrom <leif@netscape.com>
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>David DeSimone writes:
>Even if a program can dump core into a writable directory, that is not
>the same thing as being able to overwrite a file.  If you make a symlink
>core -> /etc/passwd, the dump will only succeed if /etc/passwd is also
>writable by the setgid group.  If that's the case, then you are in

How about (as proposed in the first posting) creating /usr/sbin/rtc? Or,
if you have some patience, create a file in /etc/rc2.d (for instance)?

-- Leif

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