[3589] in bugtraq
ppl bugs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Walter Misar)
Mon Nov 4 11:34:27 1996
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 10:54:24 +0100
Reply-To: Walter Misar <misar@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de>
From: Walter Misar <misar@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@netspace.org>
This two questions came to mind after reading about the ppl holes:
Why is it necessary that /usr/spool/ppl is world writable ?
Why does ppl dump core on buffer overflow ? Does it perhaps change it's real
uid to 0 ?
Walter
