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Re: [BUG] Vulnerability in PKGTOOL

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Larmour)
Tue Aug 27 17:34:34 1996

Date: 	Tue, 27 Aug 1996 18:30:41 +0100
Reply-To: Bugtraq List <BUGTRAQ@netspace.org>
From: Jonathan Larmour <JLarmour@origin-at.co.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@netspace.org>

At 09:57 27/08/96 -0400, Paul Nash wrote:
[snip]
>On the same note tin creates /tmp/.tin_log mode 666 aswell.. It's vulnerable
>to symlinks aswell.

However it doesn't complain if root creates /tmp/.tin_log mode 000, so
that's the easiest quick-fix, although take care when clearing /tmp.

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