From owner-freebsd-security Sun Aug 29 14:58:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E15414CE9 for ; Sun, 29 Aug 1999 14:58:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA99620; Sun, 29 Aug 1999 15:55:45 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id PAA89596; Sun, 29 Aug 1999 15:57:39 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199908292157.PAA89596@harmony.village.org> To: dynamo@ime.net Subject: Re: Not sure if you got it... Cc: security@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 28 Aug 1999 22:22:12 EDT." References: Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 15:57:38 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message dynamo@ime.net writes: : : to stop rebooting from working right any user can just do this... : : ln -s /file/with/blocked/io/such/as/a/tty /var/tmp/vi.recover/recover.file : : this is my second try -- if you can gimmie an "ok" so i know you got this : i would appreciate it. OK. I got it. I got your message before then headed off for the weekend. I have patches to rc which fix this exploit. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message