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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Slashes in filenames?
Message-ID: <15236@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 17 Feb 91 20:52:26 GMT
References: <26038@adm.brl.mil> <thurlow.666756073@convex.convex.com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <thurlow.666756073@convex.convex.com> thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:
>... other things like the server permitting mknod()s by non-root
>users are still being found.

Oooh, this is bad news indeed.  If exploited, it basically completely
circumvents all UNIX security features.