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Date:      Mon, 15 Jul 1996 03:38:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:      -Vince- <vince@mercury.gaianet.net>
To:        Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
Cc:        jbhunt <jbhunt@mercury.gaianet.net>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org, root@mercury.gaianet.net
Subject:   Re: New EXPLOIT located! 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960715033754.1637K-100000@mercury.gaianet.net>
In-Reply-To: <3588.837425885@orion.webspan.net>

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On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, Gary Palmer wrote:

> -Vince- wrote in message ID
> <Pine.BSF.3.91.960715012012.1637F-100000@mercury.gaianet.net>:
> > > You *HAVE* applied the rdist patch(es), or better yet, DISABLED rdist
> > > totally, haven't you?
> 
> > 	Only took out the setuid flag... Have the patches been applied to 
> > the latest -current since I just recompiled rdist from the latest 
> > -current sources...
> 
> Huh? rdist shouldn't be vunerable if it HAS had the setuid bit
> removed... (unless I really am mis-understanding something)

	Hmmm, even with the setuid bit, his exploit doesn't work anymore...
I guess the sources for July 14th really changed it cause it can't find 
distfile for rdist any longer...

Vince




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