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Re: potential root exploit with help from sam (HP-UX 10.x)
From: Tim.Matthews () NESTLEGB NESTLE COM (Tim.Matthews () NESTLEGB NESTLE COM)
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 18:09:00 +0100
Ok. Link to /etc/nologin. Tim ---------- From: David Hyams To: BUGTRAQ () NETSPACE ORG Subject: Re: potential root exploit with help from sam (HP-UX 10.x) Date: 15 May 1997 07:51 Trevor Schroeder wrote:
You've certainly got a case for a very potent DoS. Link to any file you
want:
/bin/sh, /etc/passwd, /bin/login, etc. and *poof* there it goes.
Not quite, sam only appends to the file, it doesn't truncate it. I tried making a link to /etc/passwd and all I got was a couple of hundred lines of junk appended to the existing /etc/passwd file. David Hyams
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