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Re: [8lgm]-Advisory-22.UNIX.syslog.2-Aug-1995
From: scorp () un kiev ua (Slava Kritov)
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 15:58:08 +0300
Hi ! On Tue, 29 Aug 1995, Tim Rylance wrote:
We have written an example exploit to overwrite syslog(3)'s internal buffer using SunOS sendmail(8).
Tried that on Alpha/DEC OSF 3.2 Max message size is 1600, if more - message just not get logged at all. No troubles introduced. On FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 - max size is ~2K, if more - program which send logs rq coredumps on 11 sig. ;( Free is free ... ;) Best Slava Kritov Senior Internetwork Specialist UN Internet Project for Ukraine http://www.un.kiev.ua http://www.freenet.kiev.ua
Current thread:
- Re: [8lgm]-Advisory-22.UNIX.syslog.2-Aug-1995 Christian Wettergren (Aug 29)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: [8lgm]-Advisory-22.UNIX.syslog.2-Aug-1995 Perry E. Metzger (Aug 29)
- Re: [8lgm]-Advisory-22.UNIX.syslog.2-Aug-1995 Slava Kritov (Aug 30)
- Re: [8lgm]-Advisory-22.UNIX.syslog.2-Aug-1995 der Mouse (Aug 31)
- Re: [8lgm]-Advisory-22.UNIX.syslog.2-Aug-1995 Tim Scanlon (Sep 02)
- Re: [8lgm]-Advisory-22.UNIX.syslog.2-Aug-1995 Slava Kritov (Sep 05)
- Discovery: Gain access to root on Linux via NIS Ken Weaverling (Sep 05)
- Re: Discovery: Gain access to root on Linux via NIS Alan Hannan (Sep 07)
- Re: [8lgm]-Advisory-22.UNIX.syslog.2-Aug-1995 Neil Woods (Sep 04)
- Re: [8lgm]-Advisory-22.UNIX.syslog.2-Aug-1995 System Administrator (Sep 11)
- Re: [8lgm]-Advisory-22.UNIX.syslog.2-Aug-1995 Neil Woods (Sep 12)
- Re: [8lgm]-Advisory-22.UNIX.syslog.2-Aug-1995 Karl Strickland (Sep 13)
- Re: [8lgm]-Advisory-22.UNIX.syslog.2-Aug-1995 System Administrator (Sep 14)
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