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Re: BUGTRAQ ALERT: Solaris 2.x vulnerability

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil Readwin)
Tue Aug 15 17:43:35 1995

Date:         Tue, 15 Aug 1995 21:58:33 +0100
Reply-To: Bugtraq List <BUGTRAQ@CRIMELAB.COM>
From: Neil Readwin <nreadwin@london.micrognosis.com>
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In-Reply-To:  <199508151659.JAA23492@dilger.Eng.Sun.COM> from "Michael Dilger"
              at Aug 15, 95 09:59:13 am

Michael Dilger writes:
> I tried this attack on /usr/bin/ps and /usr/ucb/ps, and it works on
> both of them.  This makes me think that more than just solaris 2.x
> machines are vulnerable (depending on the /tmp sticky bit).

Many things depend on the /tmp sticky bit, ps was just a convenient
way to get root. crontab can be attacked to overwrite anyone's cron
file when they run 'crontab -e' (Scott, if you think it's worth
posting the code for this let me know) and any of the other things that
stash files in /tmp can be attacked. Neil.
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