[2915] in bugtraq
Re: rdist exploit [bsdi]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Mitchell)
Sun Jul 14 17:26:52 1996
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 03:50:39 -0400
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From: Brian Mitchell <brian@saturn.net>
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In-Reply-To: <0ltwSAi00YUz04xW00@andrew.cmu.edu>
On Sat, 13 Jul 1996, Cosimo Leipold wrote:
> With relation to the BSDI rdist exploit, it seems logical that it may
> work on some systems and not others. I don't know what it is dependent
> on, (only have one or two machines to try it on, and they both spawned a
> shell) However some of you might be interested to know that it works on
> a commercial version as well (though there is no real reason it
> shouldnt) But on the following system, it worked, and it is a commercial
> system;
You mean there's a noncommercial version of bsd/os (bsdi)? As to what
it's dependant on, you might try specifying a offset on the command line,
default is 50 - if it segfaults try 70 or 30, it's generally somewhere
around there...
Brian Mitchell brian@saturn.net
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