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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re:  Another reason I hate NFS: Silent data loss!
Message-ID: <16448@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 18 Jun 91 15:27:50 GMT
References: <27226@adm.brl.mil>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <27226@adm.brl.mil> mike@BRL.MIL ( Mike Muuss) writes:
>NFS is designed as a reliable protocol.

But its caching is all messed up, at least on some of our systems it is.
Moss & I discovered a way for an unprivileged user to exploit this to
browse through data in files that were not supposed to be accessible.