Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!linus!philabs!ttidca!mb
From: mb@ttidca.TTI.COM (Michael Bloom)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: A security hole
Message-ID: <2082@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 12 Mar 88 10:58:54 GMT
References: <181@wsccs.UUCP> <722@rivm05.UUCP> <478@minya.UUCP> <379@vsi.UUCP>
Reply-To: mb@ttidca.tti.com (Michael Bloom)
Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica
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In article <379@vsi.UUCP> friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
|In article <478@minya.UUCP>, jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:

| > dire warnings like:
| >      The 'cc' command contains a MAJOR security hole; you should delete it
| >      from your system as fast as possible.  I can't tell you what the hole
| >      is, because it would allow any hacker to break into any Unix system in
| >      the world.  Believe me; I know what I'm talking about.
| > It's easy enough to make up warnings like these, but many of them turn out
| > on investigation to be full of bull; some are in fact fraudulent attempts

Umm, if I remember my history lessons correctly, this *intentionally
coded* bug was only in an early version of the ritchie compiler, and
not in pcc.  Please don't delete cc. (at least not yet; gnu cc is
still in beta test :-)