From: tim.newsham@gmail.com (Tim Newsham)
Subject: [TUHS] Old Unix vulnerabilities
Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 07:32:07 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGSRWbgm4FWiO2yx7zeEFq-UO1Lt1KEmkxpKzhP7pFzo=PLWsQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1705140929150.67621@aneurin.horsfall.org>
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 at 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!
>
> --
> Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
> suffer."
>
--
Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | @newshtwit | thenewsh.blogspot.com
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2017-05-13 23:34 Dave Horsfall
2017-05-14 5:52 ` Random832
2017-05-15 9:46 ` Tony Finch
2017-05-14 6:11 ` Random832
2017-05-18 17:32 ` Tim Newsham [this message]
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