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Date:      Tue, 01 Oct 2002 17:10:23 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tar/security best practice (was Re: RE: Is FreeBSD's tar  susceptible to this?)
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20021001170815.0345ab20@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20021001154626.M67581-100000@pogo.caustic.org>
References:  <4.3.2.7.2.20021001162821.036c0530@localhost>

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At 04:56 PM 10/1/2002, f.johan.beisser wrote:

>i guess i would be more worried about this having the ability to execute
>arbitrary code as the user; which it doesn't seem to have.

There are dozens of ways that it can. Think ~/.forward with a piped
command, for example.

--Brett


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