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Date:      Tue, 10 Dec 1996 10:14:38 -0600 (CST)
From:      igor@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu (Igor Roshchin)
To:        bugs@freebsd.netcom.com (Mark Hittinger)
Cc:        taob@io.org, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: URGENT: Packet sniffer found on my system
Message-ID:  <199612101614.KAA21524@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199612101436.IAA24062@freebsd.netcom.com> from "Mark Hittinger" at Dec 10, 96 08:36:49 am

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> 
> > all but six setuid root binaries chmod 500'd.  The Web/FTP server does
> > not grant shell access.  Is there something with Apache 1.1.1 or
> > wu-ftpd I don't know about that allows a user to execute arbitrary
> > code as root?  I noticed lpr still had its setuid bit on the FTP
> > server, but afaik, there is no way to tell wu-ftpd to run arbitrary
> > programs as root.  We are running wu-ftpd 2.4(1).
> >     Any ideas how root access was available so easily?
> 
> The wu-ftpd looks a little old - it probably does not have Hobbit's fixes
> in it.  You might want to get the beta-11 of wu-ftpd and put that up.  The
> beta-11 incorporates Hobbit's fixes.
> 
> Mark Hittinger
> Netcom/Dallas
> bugs@freebsd.netcom.com
> 


What are those Hobbit's fixes ?
Where can one get those ?
Why are they not incorporated in ports ?

thanks.

IgoR



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