Re: Solaris patchadd(1) (3) symlink vulnerabilty

[Paul Theodoropoulos <paul () ANASTROPHE COM>]

> I do indeed stand corrected: The only 2 sollutions are:
> 1) change to single user mode by means of init S
>    and rm -rf /tmp/* /tmp/.*
> 2) shutdown and boot -s into single user mode.


init 6 will work adequately; it's not necessary to power-down (init 5).
/tmp will be properly cleared on an init 6 (since it's normally in ram).


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