Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!cbnews!res
From: res@cbnews.att.com (Robert E. Stampfli)
Subject: Re: Beware xargs security holes
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 90 03:27:18 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Oct20.032718.1874@cbnews.att.com>
Summary: removing all files
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> In any case, I've yet to see how "a malicious user [could]
> remove every file on the system."

No user, malicious or not, can remove "every file on the system."
In fact, I contend it is impossible to remove the last instance of
an executable that contains the unlink() system call.
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