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Bugtraq: ppl bugs

ppl bugs

From: Walter Misar <misar_at_rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 10:54:24 +0100

This two questions came to mind after reading about the ppl holes:

Why is it necessary that /usr/spool/ppl is world writable ?

Why does ppl dump core on buffer overflow ? Does it perhaps change it's real
uid to 0 ?

Walter
Received on Nov 04 1996

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