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Date:      Wed, 9 May 2001 00:04:06 +0200
From:      Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>
To:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fwd: Vixie cron vulnerability
Message-ID:  <20010509000406.C7798@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>
In-Reply-To: <20010508144020.C2823@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Tue, May 08, 2001 at 02:40:20PM -0700
References:  <20010508201307.A2613@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> <20010508144020.C2823@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 02:40:20PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 08:13:07PM +0200, Szilveszter Adam wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I hate to disturb, but...  
> > 
> > I cannot reproduce this, but... are we affected? This looks like rather
> > new...
> 
> I checked this when I first heard about it and we don't seem to be.  I
> don't even know where that version came from, it might be a
> linux-originated thing.
> 
> Kris

Well the version is surely Debian: p1 stands for patchlevel 1, I guess. The
crontab on one of our Linux boxen was already updated and it produced 
exactly the same result as the one on -CURRENT: a shell wrapper suid me:-)
Cool. Maybe you (kris) should inform BUGTRAQ that we are (as usual) exempt 
from the excitement that running vulnerable systems entails...

On a semi-related note: I found no good way of finding out what version 
of cron we have.
Last time when there was an exploit I had to check ident(1) lines IIRC. 
Does any of you know of a better way?

-- 
Regards:

Szilveszter ADAM
Szeged University
Szeged Hungary

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