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Re: CFINGERD root security hole

From: rosc () FBN DANDY NET (Roscinante)
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 13:23:19 -0400


I did a dirty hack of cfingerd to run non-root quite some time ago. You lose a
little functionality, but nothing important imo.

http://users.dandy.net/~fbn/cfingerd-1.3.2.lsm
http://users.dandy.net/~fbn/cfingerd-1.3.2.tar.gz
http://users.dandy.net/~fbn/cfingerd-1.3.2.noroot.lsm
http://users.dandy.net/~fbn/cfingerd-1.3.2.noroot.tar.gz

Current thread:

Backdoor in ircN, popular mIRC script. Nick Koscianski (Jul 23)
- Re: Backdoor in ircN, popular mIRC script. Benoit Lefebvre (Jul 23)
  - espernet irc services McClain Looney (Jul 24)
  - smal bug in icmpinfo Adrian Dabrowski (Jul 26)
    - Re: smal bug in icmpinfo Rich Lafferty (Jul 26)
- CFINGERD root security hole John Goerzen (Jul 23)
  - Re: CFINGERD root security hole Roscinante (Jul 24)
  - Microsoft Security Bulletin (MS98-006) Aleph One (Jul 24)
  - SECURITY: new ncurses packages twiztah (Jul 24)
  - FW: Microsoft Security Bulletin (MS98-007) MacGyver (Jul 24)
  - Microsoft Security Bulletin (MS98-007) Aleph One (Jul 25)
  - Alert: New Source Bug Affect Sun JWS Aleph One (Jul 25)
  - Annex DoS Albert Nubdy (Jul 25)
    - Re: Annex DoS Matt Carter (Jul 26)
    - Security warning: Netscape https & proxies Henrik Nordstrom (Jul 26)
- Another NEW mIRC bug and ALL mIRC Exploit patches Derek Reynolds (Jul 24)
  - Re: Another NEW mIRC bug and ALL mIRC Exploit patches Mike Zimmerman (Jul 25)

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