Re: Unix Viruses. Are there any??

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1 total messages Started by David Reeve Sward Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:40

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Author: David Reeve Sward
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.
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David Sward   x4405 (1-412-268-4405)   sward+@cmu.edu or dsa3+@andrew.cmu.edu

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