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Article #966Re: Unix Viruses. Are there any??
From: David Reeve Sward
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:40
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:40
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.security.misc: 21-Jan-93 Re: Unix Viruses. Are there.. by Len Senetza@sigma.uleth. > so, if root executes your ls, then x is attached to some program in the > system. have your x only do it to programs which are suid. then it's > all over the place; memory protection and file access controls fail > here. > > this assumes that root has . in its path, and how many root accounts > out there do? Well, of course. Memory protection and file access controls can't possibly protect everyone all the time when human stupidity is applied in all its glory. -- David Sward x4405 (1-412-268-4405) sward+@cmu.edu or dsa3+@andrew.cmu.edu
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Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!dsa3+ Newsgroups: comp.security.misc Message-ID: <ofMRS1W00iV0M47lJ5@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:40:49 -0500 From: David Reeve Sward <sward+@CMU.EDU> Subject: Re: Unix Viruses. Are there any?? In-Reply-To: <senetza.727648754@honte> Lines: 16