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RE: Directory traversal vulnerabilities in several archivers

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (konto mailingowe)
Fri Dec 20 18:17:38 2002

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W li¶cie z ¶ro, 18-12-2002, godz. 06:18, Andrew Kopp pisze: 
> I don't really think this falls into vulnerability because most software
> will prompt you before it overwrites any file by default. And if anyone
> would actually allow their own SSHd binary to be over written deserves
> to be hacked.

and what about adding files in some specific dirs? e.g. /etc/rc.boot in
debian (i mean run-parts)

> 
> And to those who extract an un-trusted archive and set the "don't prompt
> me" flag, you really need a lesson in 'basic' (very obvious too!)
> security practices.
> 
> No pun intended.
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> Regards,
> 
> 
> drewk~
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Florian Schafferhans [mailto:fs@computer-security.de] 
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