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Re: exploit for locale format string bug (Solaris 2.x)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Teeter)
Mon Sep 11 17:21:46 2000

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Date:         Mon, 11 Sep 2000 10:14:30 -0700
Reply-To: Paul Teeter <paul.teeter@EBAY.SUN.COM>
From: Paul Teeter <paul.teeter@EBAY.SUN.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM

> I wish Sun would make a response in this forum so its customers (including
> the ones without multi-thousand-dollar support contracts) would know what
> the time window is for local users being able to easily get root.

Unofficially....

We had multiple notifcations from customers last week.  It has been
escalated
and is being addressed as I write this.

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Paul J. Teeter
UNIX/Windows Technical Support Engineer
Americas Technical Assistance Center (ATAC)
Enterprise Services

email) paul.teeter@ebay.sun.com

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