[9641] in bugtraq
Re: xtvscreen and suse 6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Thu Feb 18 17:33:07 1999
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 22:51:00 +0000
Reply-To: Alan Cox <alan@LXORGUK.UKUU.ORG.UK>
From: Alan Cox <alan@LXORGUK.UKUU.ORG.UK>
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from "Andre Cruz" at Feb 18, 99 03:54:24 pm
> You can use xtvscreen to overwrite any file on the system.
> Xtvscreen has a function to capture a snapshot and will write it as
Xtvscreen really should not be installed setuid. The only reason to do so
is because something has to tell the capture card where the frame buffer is.
This should be the Xserver (patched), or one of the small helper applications
available for this.
Alan
