From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jun 25 13:29:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-security Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA14619 for security-outgoing; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 13:29:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mercury.gaianet.net (root@mercury.gaianet.net [206.171.98.26]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA14569; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 13:29:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from vince@localhost) by mercury.gaianet.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) id NAA15405; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 13:28:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 13:28:02 -0700 (PDT) From: -Vince- To: torstenb@tlk.com cc: Gary Palmer , security@freebsd.org, Chad Shackley , jbhunt Subject: Re: I need help on this one - please help me track this guy down! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-security@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 25 Jun 1996, Torsten Blum wrote: > Gary Palmer wrote: > > > [ CC: Trimmed ] > > > > > Yeah, that's the real question is like if he can transfer the > > > binary from another machine and have it work... other people can do the > > > same thing and gain access to FreeBSD boxes as root as long as they have > > > a account on that machine... > > > > Sort of. You need root access in the first place to create a suid root > > shell... It could be an old exploit that is now closed (like the > > mount_union loophole)... > > Or the telnetd environment hole - it was possible to become root via telnet > without an account on the target machine. What was the telnetd hole? Vince