Bugtraq: Re: Can anyone verify a core dump on /sbin/mingetty - FOLLOW UP - Getty also dumping core

[Bill Weiss <houdini () nmt edu>]

Scott Mackenzie(smackenz () brad ac uk)@Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 08:07:50PM +0000:
> SEE MESSAGE :
> 'Can anyone verify a core dump on /sbin/mingetty'
> for the original post
>
> The reason why there is no core dump from /sbin is because I didn't have 
> write access - should have noticed that but there you go.
>
> Ok, bit more information:
>
> This problem is positive in the following systems:
> * note there could and probably are more but I've only had word of the 
> following systems being tested
>
> Red-Hat 6.0 onwards (not tested any before) upto and including 7.2
> Mandrake 8.0 2.4.3-20mdksmp (presumably similar to redhat here)
> turbolinux 6.0
> SCO unix 5.0.5
>
> (this information was quickly gathered by several people; thanks everyone)
Slackware 7.0 (maybe 8.0) uses agetty, which is not vunerable, as far as I can tell.
It just spits out a usage error.

-- Bill Weiss