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Date:      Fri, 1 Aug 1997 20:40:53 -0500
From:      Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com>
To:        Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
Cc:        Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>, Sergio Lenzi <lenzi@bsi.com.br>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: security hole on FreeBSD 2.2.2
Message-ID:  <19970801204053.21398@futuresouth.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970801172516.8042C-100000@misery.sdf.com>; from Tom Samplonius on Fri, Aug 01, 1997 at 05:26:23PM -0700
References:  <Pine.LNX.3.91.970801202857.3568G-100000@zen.cypher.net> <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970801172516.8042C-100000@misery.sdf.com>

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> On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Ben Black wrote:
> > exactly.  i have no clue what this guy is talking about.
> 
>   Exactly.  It looks like this guy installed some bogus software, probably
> setuid to root, that has a gaping hole in it.

  Maybe he's talking about suidperl.  I seemed to remember this being a
known problem and we had disabled ours long time ago.

  Tim



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