[18299] in bugtraq
Re: Solaris patchadd(1) (3) symlink vulnerabilty
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Theodoropoulos)
Thu Dec 21 20:02:37 2000
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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:12:48 -0800
Reply-To: Paul Theodoropoulos <paul@ANASTROPHE.COM>
From: Paul Theodoropoulos <paul@ANASTROPHE.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
In-Reply-To: <20001221120931.A23523@fm.rz.fh-muenchen.de>
>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.
init 6 will work adequately; it's not necessary to power-down (init 5).
/tmp will be properly cleared on an init 6 (since it's normally in ram).
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