Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!bcm!convex!news From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: getting vendors to fix security bugs Message-ID: <1991Feb20.004811.28521@convex.com> Date: 20 Feb 91 00:48:11 GMT References: <15236@smoke.brl.mil> <123382@uunet.UU.NET> Sender: news@convex.com (news access account) Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Organization: CONVEX Software Development, Richardson, TX Lines: 11 Nntp-Posting-Host: pixel.convex.com From the keyboard of rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim): :The mknod bug has been fixed.... Speaking of which I wonder when they'll get around to fixing or disabling suid scripts. Anybody have the very latest release of SunOS and able to verify whether the bug's still there? --tom -- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist "All things are possible, but not all expedient." (in life, UNIX, and perl)