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Re: youbin local root exploit + advisory

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy C. Reed)
Tue May 6 14:36:34 2003

Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 10:05:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
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On Tue, 6 May 2003, [iso-8859-1] Knud Erik Højgaard wrote:

> 5/5/03 - FreeBSD port maintainer notified
> 5/5/03 - FreeBSD port maintainer replies, bug is known, apparently no fix
> is planned at the moment

What about notifying the original developer?

What was the developer's response?

> 6/5/03 - public disclosure

At least you got FreeBSD to now mark it as FORBIDDEN. (Maybe submitting a
FreeBSD problem report would have gotten this done earlierr; I didn't find
one.)

What about Debian? And others that provide youbin?

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/





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