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Subject: Re: BoS: CERT Advisory CA-96.12 - Vulnerability in suidperl (fwd)
From: John-David Childs <jdc () ism ! net>
Date: 1996-06-30 21:58:04
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On Sun, 30 Jun 1996, Kai wrote:
> Brian Tao wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 30 Jun 1996, Dan Polivy wrote:
> > >
> > On a BSD/OS 2.0 system, running the script produces "Can't swap
> > uid and euid.". The exploit works on my FreeBSD systems from 2.1R
> > through to 2.2-960501-SNAP. 2.2-960612-SNAP appears to have already
> > fixed the problem. I imagine the recent 2.1.5 snapshots are not
> > vulnerable either, but I haven't had a chance to verify.
> > --
>
> execution on my system results in a 'Insecure PATH at ./blah line 3.' ,
> no matter what program exec is calling in the exploit script.
> Why is that ?
>
>
Try #!/usr/bin/suidperl -U (you probably don't have -U)
As others have stated, 2.1-STABLE proved vulnerable on my system, but BSDi
2.0/2.01 was not.
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