[1426] in bugtraq
Re: Problem with SATAN/VMS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andreas Siegert)
Fri Apr 7 20:09:07 1995
From: afx@ibm.de (Andreas Siegert)
To: sears@eglin.af.mil (David R. Sears)
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 23:50:55 +0200 (CEST)
Cc: wietse@wzv.win.tue.nl, bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9504071117.E20707-0100000@merlin.eglin.af.mil> from "David R. Sears" at Apr 7, 95 11:57:47 am
SATAN on AIX has a similar problem.
AIX emits a permission denied that the simple test (test -s) doesn't catch
> The bourne shell script 'rsh.satan' falsely reports a vulnerability on
> hosts that are running DEC VMS 6.1 This is because the OS sends the
> following message to standard output:
>
> UCX$RSHD - Permission denied - host IP addr
>
> To fix, just add a test for the above string to the 'if $TEST -s
> "$tmp_file"' test in 'rsh.satan'.
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