Re: BUGTRAQ ALERT: Solaris 2.x vulnerability
System Administrator (root@iifeak.swan.ac.uk)
Fri, 18 Aug 1995 16:10:44 +0100
> Just to add my two cents to the discussion:
> - this is a known problem
So why wasn't it more publically announced. Sun could easily have issued a
new binary very publically and without saying what they had fixed.
> - it is fixed in 2.5 (by using fchown, not chown, both versions of ps)
So why didnt you tell people instead of negligently leaving them exposed
> - it only affects people that either:
> - use tmpfs (default) and don't modifiy it +t themselves
> - or us a filesystem for /tmp and didn't do a +t as well.
Otherwise known as the majority of people who are less technically clued up.
Vendors need to improve their methods.
Alan