[18294] in bugtraq
Re: Solaris patchadd(1) (3) symlink vulnerabilty
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neulinger, Nathan R.)
Thu Dec 21 19:38:36 2000
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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:42:00 -0600
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From: "Neulinger, Nathan R." <nneul@UMR.EDU>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
On most suns I've seen, /tmp is mounted against swap. In that case, simply
booting into single user mode would be sufficient, since /tmp will
automatically be clear.
-- Nathan
>I do indeed stand corrected: The only 2 sollutions are:
>1) change to single user mode by means of init S
> and rm -rf /tmp/* /tmp/.*
>2) shutdown and boot -s into single user mode.
