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Re: BUGTRAQ ALERT: Solaris 2.x vulnerability

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Lawson)
Wed Aug 16 13:13:40 1995

Date:         Wed, 16 Aug 1995 01:42:36 -0700
Reply-To: Bugtraq List <BUGTRAQ@CRIMELAB.COM>
From: Nathan Lawson <nlawson@statler.csc.calpoly.edu>
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In-Reply-To:  <Pine.SUN.3.90.950815190543.11643A-100000@dfw.net> from "Aleph
              One" at Aug 15, 95 07:06:48 pm

Aleph1 said:
> Well while we taling about SysV ps IRIX's its sgid to sys, writes
> to /tmp/.ps_data and /tmp/.ps_XXXXXX but /tmp was the sticky bit on.

The /tmp/.psXXXXXX is open to a race.  The directory is safe as long as it
isn't world writable.

-Nate

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