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Re: sperl 5.00503 (and newer ;) exploit

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Kirkwood)
Tue Aug 8 12:49:58 2000

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Date:         Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:10:43 +0100
Reply-To: Matthew Kirkwood <weejock@FERRET.LMH.OX.AC.UK>
From: Matthew Kirkwood <weejock@FERRET.LMH.OX.AC.UK>
X-To:         Paul Szabo <psz@MATHS.USYD.EDU.AU>
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On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Paul Szabo wrote:

>   cd /usr/local/bin
>   cp -i suidperl suidperl.ORIG
>   perl -pe 's/mail root/NOmailZZZ/' < suidperl.ORIG > suidperl
>   chmod 4711 suidperl

Careful!  You're missing a:

  chmod 0 suidperl.ORIG

here.

Matthew.

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