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Re: Nasty security hole in "lprm"

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dima Ruban)
Mon Apr 20 15:32:38 1998

Date: 	Mon, 20 Apr 1998 00:41:37 -0700
Reply-To: dima@best.net
From: Dima Ruban <dima@BEST.NET>
X-To:         chris@FERRET.LMH.OX.AC.UK
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To:  <Pine.LNX.3.95.980418154712.7001A-100000@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
              from Chris Evans at "Apr 18, 98 03:49:08 pm"

Chris Evans writes:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry to follow up on my own post about lprm, but...
>
> ...yes OpenBSD fixed it long ago.

FreeBSD has it fixed for a long time (rmjob.c on my machine hasn't been
changed since Oct 1997)

> I'll bet there are other lpr subsystem bugs they fixed too, that we should
> all care about :)
>

-- dima

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