[7938] in bugtraq
Re: tmp exploit with redhat printfilter?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pavel Kankovsky)
Mon Sep 14 12:37:12 1998
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 08:31:29 +0200
Reply-To: peak@kerberos.troja.mff.cuni.cz
From: Pavel Kankovsky <peak@KERBEROS.TROJA.MFF.CUNI.CZ>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.00.9809132103170.9901-100000@egor.dyn.ml.org>
On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, base16@flash.net wrote:
> It seems the RedHat print filter contains the following lines:
>
> if [ ${i##*:} = "DONE" ]; then
> if [ "$DEBUG_FILTER" != "" ]; then
> echo "$root -> depth = $depth" >> /tmp/filter.debug
> fi
and these
#
# define these to gets lots of feedback
# output is appended on /tmp/filter.debug
#
DEBUG_TREE=""
DEBUG_FILTER=""
You're safe unless you enable debugging.
When you do, you should be careful though...
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"You can't be truly paranoid unless you're sure they have already got you."
