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Date:      Fri, 17 May 1996 01:26:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:      invalid opcode <coredump@nervosa.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org, security-officer@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: very bad 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960517012516.20464H-100000@onyx.nervosa.com>
In-Reply-To: <13470.832320504@time.cdrom.com>

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On Fri, 17 May 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> Ow! :-(
> 
> Thanks for reporting this!
> 
> You know though, for ones this bad I'd really rather you sent the
> message to security-officer@freebsd.org rather than freebsd-security
> in the future.  There are easily over 1000 people on this list and you
> just announced a cookbook method for any shell account user to go root
> on a FreeBSD based ISP box; hardly the kind of information one would
> want to see widely circulated without a prepared fix, at the
> least. :-(
> 					Jordan

Too bad it's already on BUGTRAQ and BoS which is way more than 1000 :-(
And I would have sent it to security-officer@freebsd.org had I even known 
of such an address. The prepared fix is chmod u-s /sbin/mount_union.

== Chris Layne ======================================== Nervosa Computing ==
== coredump@nervosa.com ================ http://www.nervosa.com/~coredump ==




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