[4813] in bugtraq
Re: [ADVISORY] 4.4BSD Securelevels
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Howie Kaye)
Fri Jun 27 13:02:59 1997
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 10:19:13 EDT
Reply-To: howie@watsun.cc.columbia.edu
From: Howie Kaye <howie@COLUMBIA.EDU>
X-To: tqbf@enteract.com
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 25 Jun 1997 18:10:40 -0500
If this secure_level is to prevent certain attacks as root, what stops
root (or someone breaking in with root) from modifying the init
binary, and rebooting to install it, or even having the modified code
just get demand paged in?
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Howie Kaye Columbia University
howie@columbia.edu UNIX Systems Group
