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Date:      Sat, 24 Aug 1996 12:13:55 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
To:        julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer)
Cc:        security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [Fwd: mount bug..]
Message-ID:  <199608241013.MAA04792@gvr.win.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <321DF44B.6201DD56@whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Aug 23, 96 11:11:23 am"

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Julian Elischer wrote:
> This doesn't work, but I'm wondering why it says it's for freeBSD..
> did it work on an earlier version? (even with bin replaced by sbin)
> 
> umount is not suid anyhow, but.....
> does anyone know about this?

Since they use umount to do the exploit I cannot imagine how they would
ever get a root shell....umount is not suid.

-Guido



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