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Re: (debian) Re: suidperl; more

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dylan Griffiths)
Thu Aug 10 16:20:48 2000

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Reply-To: Dylan Griffiths <Dylan_G@BIGFOOT.COM>
From: Dylan Griffiths <Dylan_G@BIGFOOT.COM>
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"Dunker, Noah" wrote:
> I've long since gotten rid of my FreeBSD 3.x and 2.x boxen, so I don't have
> a good way to test old FreeBSD releases.  I'll try OpenBSD 2.7 and NetBSD
> 1.4.2 when I get home.  I'm guessing the recent releases of all *BSD are
> probably not vulnerable due to the location of mail (and the fact that
> /bin/bash doesn't exist, but any script kiddie can change the script to
> /bin/sh).
>

OpenBSD 2.7 release is not vulnerable because they don't have suidperl by
default (that whole secure by default policy of not having stuff unless you
need it, since non-setuid perl is fine for most).

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