Re: /usr/sbin/audlinks vulnerability

2001-01-09 Thread optyx
It was never stated you could use audlinks to gain root through rsh/rlogin. in my post I said you could use it to clobber (overwrite to clarify because obviously I have to) audlinks like many programs doesn't fstat the file it opens with O_RDWR access properly. As far as this posing a threat to

Re: /usr/sbin/audlinks vulnerability

2001-01-08 Thread Konrad Rieck
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 02:34:50PM -0800, "Optyx - Uberhax0r Communications"@SECURITYFOCUS.COM wrote: > /usr/sbin/audlinks has the following behavior: > $ id > uid=100(optyx) gid=1(other) > $ mkdir -p /tmp/b/dev > $ ln -s /.rhosts /tmp/b/dev/.devfsadm_dev.lock > $ su root > Password: > # /usr/sb