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- From: earle@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Greg Earle - Gainfully Unemployed)
- Subject: Re: Aviator flight simulator [Security hole alert]
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.103222.5141@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.apps
- Reply-To: isolar!earle@elroy.JPL.NASA.GOV
- Organization: Gainfully unemployed
- References: <1992Dec16.153218.22830@einoed.in-berlin.de> <16805@pak.UUCP>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 10:32:22 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- In article <16805@pak.UUCP> kvj@triple-i.com writes:
- >A few people here have it. Great game! It isn't as complex as Falcon (PC &
- >Mac) but it is too good to be a video game. The graphics are very smooth, but
- >you only get full screen in 16 colors (half screen in 256 is a little too
- >tight for my liking).
-
- Yes, "Aviator" (TM) is too good to be a video game. So they made it a
- security hole as well.
-
- What do you think of a program that needs to access /dev/nit to do
- multicasting (for Dogfight Mode), and instead of running setuid to root to
- open() /dev/nit and then doing a setreuid() back to the real user i.d. after
- doing so, it chmod's /dev/nit to mode 666 in the installation script?!?
-
- Your "Aviator" players who are happily dogfighting can then later on run
- "etherfind" or "tcpdump" or "snoop" and happily intercept passwords at will ...
-
- >Dogfighting in this game is fantastic. When you get into the furball, you
- >really don't have time to worry much about anything else but the other guy.
- >Playing in teams is the best. We have four people who play and luckily we have
- >one pair at one end of the hall and the other pair at the other end. This is
- >great because you can talk to your wingman without the other side hearing your
- >strategy.
-
- Yeah, and you can talk to your wingman without hearing the System Administrator
- cursing at the top of his/her lungs because several people dogfighting tends
- to bring the network to its knees.
-
- The GX is a great piece of hardware engineering. And some parts of "Aviator"
- are inspired graphics programming. However, as a Software Product (TM),
- "Aviator" leaves an awful lot to be desired ...
-
- --
- - Greg Earle
- Itinerant Sun Consultant
- isolar!earle@elroy.JPL.NASA.GOV
-