Bugtraq: Re: GZEXE - the big problem

[deraadt () CVS OPENBSD ORG (Theo de Raadt)]

> GZEXE, part of gzip package, is a small utility which allows
> 'transparent' compressio any kind of executables (just like pklite
> under ms-dos). Unfortunatelly, it may be extremally dangerous. Here's
> the shell script used to decompression:
>
> if /usr/bin/tail +$skip $0 | "/usr/bin"/gzip -cd > /tmp/gztmp$$; then...
> [...]                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> /tmp/gztmp$$ ${1+"$@"}; res=3D$?
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
This /tmp race was fixed in the OpenBSD back in August... looks like
OpenBSD 2.2 is not vulnerable.