Bugtraq: Re: potential root exploit with help from sam (HP-UX 10.x)

[Tim.Matthews () NESTLEGB NESTLE COM (Tim.Matthews () NESTLEGB NESTLE COM)]

Ok. Link to /etc/nologin.

Tim
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From: David Hyams
To: BUGTRAQ () NETSPACE ORG
Subject: Re: potential root exploit with help from sam (HP-UX 10.x)
Date: 15 May 1997 07:51

Trevor Schroeder wrote:
> You've certainly got a case for a very potent DoS.  Link to any file you
want:
> /bin/sh, /etc/passwd, /bin/login, etc. and *poof* there it goes.
Not quite, sam only appends to the file, it doesn't truncate it.
I tried making a link to /etc/passwd and all I got was a couple of
hundred
lines of junk appended to the existing /etc/passwd file.

David Hyams