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Re: procfs hole


From: brian () FIREHOUSE NET (Brian Mitchell)
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 14:38:41 -0400


On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote:


This would be a horrible solution. Someone is just going to chose another
function to overwrite and do a setuid(0) and execve() of some shell.

Would disabling bash and sh (and any other shells that allowed this) be a
good temporary solution?  I've noticed you have to have it set as your
default shell, so removing it from /etc/shells could prevent this.  It's
either that or disbale procfs (and I'm still not sure what the effects of
that would be)


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