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Article #968Re: Unix Viruses. Are there any??
From: Lowell R. Snyder,,,COMS,Undergra...
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:22
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:22
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In article <senetza.727648754@honte> senetza@sigma.uleth.ca (Len Senetza) writes >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? Been there, done that. *Most* Unix sysadms have . as the last place to look for a file, with the system programmers (the ones that need it) using least privilege! This works around that problem. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try our new Eunichs - a slightly smaller version of the popular original, featuring the SpermControl Print Queue (the more copies you send, the more likely one will be printed).
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!ucsbcsl!fig!lsnyder From: lsnyder@fig.ucsb.edu (Lowell R. Snyder,,,COMS,Undergraduate) Newsgroups: comp.security.misc Subject: Re: Unix Viruses. Are there any?? Message-ID: <7467@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> Date: 24 Jan 93 19:22:49 GMT References: <1993Jan15.090426.12195@unix.brighton.ac.uk> <17988@umd5.umd.edu> <senetza.727648754@honte> Sender: root@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara Lines: 17