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Date:      Mon, 15 Sep 1997 09:02:16 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why SPERL?
Message-ID:  <19970915090216.CL25419@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970915062637.22299A-100000@krusty.the.clown.engelska.se>; from Existence is Futile on Sep 15, 1997 06:30:43 %2B0200
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970915062637.22299A-100000@krusty.the.clown.engelska.se>

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As Existence is Futile wrote:

> Someone posted a similar message earlier, but I never saw a reply (might
> have been because the mailserver for this domain is Linux.. hehe).

Then you didn't read very carefully.

> Why does even the latest RELENG (that I've used) include sperl4.036?

Because we have fixed all known security holes.

> when
> it's a well known way to get root? it came in handy today when some guy
> couldn't su because he wasnt in the wheel group and couldn't login as root
> any other way (being 45 minutes away). But, it's a serious security flaw!

j@uriah 104% make sperl
cc -O2 -m486 -pipe  sperl.c  -o sperl
j@uriah 105% ./sperl    #‰^               N
Can't open perl script "   1Ò‰V‰V‰VsVx1À°; ‰ÊRQSPëwèØÿÿÿ/bin/sh````aaaabbbbcccccoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿^[[?1;2cïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ïoÕ¿ï": File name too long

> Of course, this may have already been fixed and I'm just blowing hot air
> all around, but its an old exploit and the august releng's at least
> include it. 

Which August?  I've fixed it on August 8, 1996 (although i've missed a
few function calls originally).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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