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Date:      Thu, 31 Jul 1997 12:31:46 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        gilbertp@videotron.com (Patrick Gilbert)
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: security hole in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <199707310301.MAA25307@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970730144402.006c5dd4@pop.videotron.ca> from Patrick Gilbert at "Jul 30, 97 02:44:02 pm"

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Patrick Gilbert stands accused of saying:
> 
> After a brief discussion with TheCa on Efnet, he dcc'd me his famous
> exploit for a transcript of 
> his brief moment of fame on this discussion list.

Oh, what a d00d.

>         execl("/usr/bin/sperl5.00403",
> "/usr/bin/sperl5.00403", buf, NULL);
> }

This looks like a Linux exploit; there is no Perl5 in the FreeBSD tree, and
if it were installed from the port/package it would be in /usr/local/bin.

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