Bugtraq: Re: Vixie Crontab exploit code

[rjp () BROWSER ORG (rjp () BROWSER ORG)]

In message <19990902004829.A2579 () ohhara postech ac kr>,
           Taeho Oh writes:
> # Tested redhat linux : 4.2, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0
> # Tested vixie crontab version : 3.0.1
Tried this on a non-hardened SuSE 6.1 with cron 3.0.1 with no result.

The script didn't change the DefaultUser for sendmail to start with because
SuSE doesn't use numeric ids in it's sendmail.cf.  I also fixed the script
so that the user-created sendmail.cf actually had DefaultUser=0:0 (I think
this was just a typo -- /tmp/sendmail.cf gets created with DefaultUser=0:0
but then is overwritten with the value from /etc/sendmail.cf.)

Even with those two fixes, I still just get a shell owned by my uid/gid.

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