Bugtraq: Re: SUID shell scripts, questions?

[carson () lehman com (Carson Gaspar)]

On Fri, 10 Feb 1995, Greg Woods wrote:

> Or you can just create a symlink to a setuid script called "-i". Guess
> what happens when the system executes "sh -i"? Don't even need the
> race condition. And even without this, you could always overwrite the
> SAME file with something new, so the fd doesn't change.
Attack #1 (symlink -i) fails under solaris.  The shell is invoked as:
/bin/sh /dev/fd/xxx

Attack #2 is only possible if you're dumb enough to leave a setuid 
program world-writeable.

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