[16349] in bugtraq
Re: RH 6.1 / 6.2 minicom vulnerability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Moritz Hardt)
Tue Aug 22 15:05:39 2000
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 00:24:20 +0200
Reply-To: Moritz Hardt <root@MORIX.DE>
From: Moritz Hardt <root@MORIX.DE>
X-To: Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@DIONE.IDS.PL>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
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On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Michal Zalewski wrote:
> On RedHat 6.1 and RedHat 6.2 boxes (I haven't found other distributions
> vulnerable):
suse6.4 propably prior versions, too seem to be vulnerable, aswell.
>
> @(#)Minicom V1.83.0 (compiled Mar 7 2000)(c) Miquel van Smoorenburg
>
> [lcamtuf@nimue lcamtuf]$ minicom -C foo
> minicom: there is no global configuration file /etc/minirc.dfl
> Ask your sysadm to create one (with minicom -s).
>
> [lcamtuf@nimue lcamtuf]$ ls -l foo
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 lcamtuf uucp 0 Aug 18 12:21 foo
> ^^ ^^^^
>
> Any file can be created anywhere with uucp privledges - it will follow
> symlinks. Not nice on systems running uucp services.
>
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- moritz
