[17343] in bugtraq
Re: linux xlock exploit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sylvain Robitaille)
Wed Oct 25 13:37:34 2000
Message-Id: <200010251616.MAA30417@alcor.concordia.ca>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 12:16:08 -0400
Reply-To: Sylvain Robitaille <syl@ALCOR.CONCORDIA.CA>
From: Sylvain Robitaille <syl@ALCOR.CONCORDIA.CA>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
In-Reply-To: <F247vO8nphGVMLzQIHl000011ee@hotmail.com>
On Sun, 22 Oct 2000 08:21:44 GMT, Mr Ben wrote:
> Exploit is designed to give root in one try.
> Works on Slackware 7.1 and should work on others.
It seems systems which don't have error(), such as older Slackware
systems don't have this problem. Is this dependant on versions of
XFree86 or on libc versions? (I suspect the latter, but it *is* the
former that's *calling* error())
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Sylvain Robitaille syl@alcor.concordia.ca
Systems analyst Concordia University
Instructional & Information Technology Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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