Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 22:33:26 -0400 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Aleph One <aleph1@dfw.net> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cat exploit Message-ID: <17280.905481206@gjp.erols.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Sep 1998 16:24:28 CDT." <Pine.SUN.4.01.9809101623240.13293-100000@dfw.nationwide.net>
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Aleph One wrote in message ID <Pine.SUN.4.01.9809101623240.13293-100000@dfw.nationwide.net>: > Because its non-intuitive. How many end users are going to know that > simply cat'ing a file is dangerous? More or less shouldnt protect me. > xterm and rxvt should. Then why are you asking us to stop it? We do not maintain either xterm nor rxvt in the FreeBSD source tree. May I suggest you contact the maintainers of the respective code bases and complain? Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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