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Re: linux xlock exploit

From: Sylvain Robitaille <syl () ALCOR CONCORDIA CA>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 12:16:08 -0400

On Sun, 22 Oct 2000 08:21:44 GMT, Mr Ben wrote:

Exploit is designed to give root in one try.
Works on Slackware 7.1 and should work on others.


It seems systems which don't have error(), such as older Slackware
systems don't have this problem.  Is this dependant on versions of
XFree86 or on libc versions?  (I suspect the latter, but it *is* the
former that's *calling* error())

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Sylvain Robitaille                              syl () alcor concordia ca

Systems analyst                                   Concordia University
Instructional & Information Technology        Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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