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Re: IRIX 5.3 chost
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vern Hart)
Mon Aug 12 16:19:27 1996
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 11:52:01 -0700
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From: Vern Hart <vern@best.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@netspace.org>
On Aug 12, 5:00pm, Grant Kaufmann wrote:
>
> > At 10:26 AM 8/7/96 +0200, Grant Kaufmann wrote:
> >
> > Do you have patch 1096 installed on the system you're able to exploit?
>
> No, I don't have the patch; thats probably the reason for the failure.
> Well, I hope the exploit will encourage sysadmins to install the patch.
I just installed patch 1096 on a 5.3 system here and I am still able to
get in through the chost security hole. So I'm pretty sure the patch
doesn't plug the hole.
Cheers,
Vern
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