Re: IRIX 5.3 chost

[vern () BEST COM (Vern Hart)]

On Aug 12,  5:00pm, Grant Kaufmann wrote:
> > At 10:26 AM 8/7/96 +0200, Grant Kaufmann wrote:
> >
> > Do you have patch 1096 installed on the system you're able to exploit?
>
> No, I don't have the patch; thats probably the reason for the failure.
> Well, I hope the exploit will encourage sysadmins to install the patch.

I just installed patch 1096 on a 5.3 system here and I am still able to
get in through the chost security hole.  So I'm pretty sure the patch
doesn't plug the hole.

Cheers,
Vern
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