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Re: nfs_mount in AIX

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Julian Assange)
Sat Apr 29 00:12:08 1995

From: Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.apana.org.au>
To: fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald)
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 13:48:04 +1000 (EST)
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <199504260115.AA06504@fnord.wang.com> from "Tom Fitzgerald" at Apr 25, 95 09:15:58 pm

> Here's a little additional information.....  the nfs_mount routine does its
> work through the vmount() system call, which is documented.  If this is a
> security hole at all, then it's because it would let an attacker mount a
> remote filesystem under his control onto a world-readable directory like
						   ^^^^^^^^
> /tmp or /var/preserve, and thereby grab a copy of everything that was
> written to that directory.  Anybody want to write a test program?

Shouldn't that be writeable?

-Proff

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