Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 13:49:10 -0800 From: Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com> To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A new 'sploit? Message-ID: <38274556.F118488B@bigfoot.com> References: <14375.5840.975982.927941@trooper.velocet.net>
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David Gilbert wrote: > I'm still stuck with trying to remove this giant block of > directories. Bash won't allow me to cd into them, but if I cd into > them with sh, I can get all the way to the end. Once I'm in that last > directory, if I try to run any command (any non-internal command), I > get: > Subject: Re: how to remove directories made by the core-following-symlink test code? > Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 03:49:54 +0200 > From: Harold Gutch <logix@foobar.franken.de> > To: Markus Holmberg <saska@acc.umu.se>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG > > > On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 03:23:16AM +0200, Markus Holmberg wrote: > > Wanted to test if the 2.2.8-STABLE production box here was vulnerable, so I > > compiled and executed with the deep dir structure as a result.. > > > > Am I missing something very trivial here, or how am I supposed to do to > > remove the very deep directory structure that was made by the > > core-follow-symlink test/exploit/whatever code? > > > > A normal "rm -rf <dir>" won't do it.. > > > I had the same problem - my (quick) solution was something like > while (true) do mv * a && cd a done > > which would rename every directory to "a" (as every directory > contains only a single subdirectory), which then could be removed > with "rm -rf <dir>". > > bye, > Harold > > -- > <Shabby> Sleep is an abstinence syndrome wich occurs due to lack of caffein. > Wed Mar 4 04:53:33 CET 1998 #unix, ircnet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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