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- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 06:49:59 -0400
- From: Sean MacGuire <sean@WWW.MACLAWRAN.CA>
- To: BUGTRAQ@netspace.org
- Subject: FW: Security Notice: Big Brother 1.09b/c
-
- http://www.maclawran.ca/bb/ for more info on Big Brother.
-
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- -----FW: <199904261049.GAA07967@www.maclawran.ca>-----
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- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 06:49:59 -0400 (EDT)
- >From: Sean MacGuire <sean@www.maclawran.ca>
- To: solo@dok.org
- Subject: Security Notice: Big Brother 1.09b/c
-
-
- This notice concerns the Big Brother System and Network Monitor.
-
- We noticed you downloaded a version which could be affected by
- this problem so we wanted to tell you about it.
-
- If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact me
- at mailto:sean@maclawran.ca. Sorry for any inconvenience.
-
- ===========================
- Big Brother Security Notice
- ===========================
-
- Versions: 1.09b and 1.09c
-
- Module: CGI History module (web/bb-hist.sh)
-
- Affects: Anyone who's installed the new history viewer
- bb-hist.sh as a CGI program.
-
- Summary: Exploiting the problem could allow the partial
- display of local files provided they are readable
- by your web server, and text-based.
-
- Fix: Please pick up a new version of the bb-hist.sh file
- at: http://maclawran.ca/bb-dnld/bb-hist.sh
-
- Found by: Michael Smith <michael@csuite.ns.ca> Thanks Michael.
-
- I've also updated the archive to be 1.09d (this is the only
- change).
- --
- Sean MacGuire, Reality Engineer sean@MacLawran.ca
- The Big Brother Ministry of Truth http://maclawran.ca/sean
- icbm --> 45'31.06N-73'35.19W +1 514 982 9688
- "Looking down the barrel of another day"
-
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