Re: Compaq mount patch broken

[Weimer () CERT Uni-Stuttgart DE (Florian Weimer)]

psz () maths usyd edu au (Paul Szabo) writes:

> I have reported this to Compaq (but expect no speedy resolution). I am
> puzzled: why patch /sbin/mount or /usr/bin/csh if they are not setuid?

Paul confirmed in private email that /sbin/mount is statically linked.
I guess that it contains a copy of the RPC code for NFS mounts.
xdr_array() is actually used for interaction with rpc.mountd, so a new
/sbin/mount binary was needed to remove a potential threat.

(I haven't got access to a Tru64 system, so this is pure, albeit
plausible speculation.)

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