18 May
2017
18 May
'17
11:32 p.m.
Here are some previously reported ones:
v1:
http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/unix-jun72/2008-May/000126.html
http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/unix-jun72/2008-May/000250.html
v7:
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2004/Jun/37
On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 1:34 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
OK, I'll kick it off.
A beauty in V6 (and possibly V7) was discovered by the kiddies in Elec
Eng; by sending a signal with an appropriately-crafted negative value (as
determined from inspecting <user.h>) you could overwrite u.u_uid with
zero... Needless to say I scrambled to fix that one on my 11/40 network!
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Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."
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