[8244] in bugtraq
solaris tape dev permission stupidity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joshua grubman)
Wed Oct 21 23:07:13 1998
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 18:14:53 -0400
Reply-To: joshua grubman <jg@FALSE.NET>
From: joshua grubman <jg@FALSE.NET>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
hi,
this is rather silly and obvious, but i couldn't find anything in seaching
the old archives on geek-girl.com.
problem:
under solaris, scsi tape devices (/dev/rmt/*, which are linked to the st@x,x:
devs in /devices) are created with the permissions bits set to 666. this allows
a mallicious user with a login on your system to 'mt erase' the contents of any
tape devices connected to your system.
solution:
this is a tough one. i'll let you figure it out yourself.
~josh
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