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From: doug@lenti.UUCP (Doug Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: mkdir security bug   ****FIX POSTED***
Summary: mkdir security bug   ****FIX POSTED***
Keywords: mkdir bug
Message-ID: <9469@merch.TANDY.COM>
Date: 15 Dec 88 08:24:02 GMT
Sender: doug@merch.TANDY.COM
Reply-To: doug@letni (Doug Davis)
Organization: lawnet
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I just posted a fix to the recient /bin/mkdir security problem that
was posted to news.admin. The fix was posted in both news.admin
and comp.sources.misc.

Those of you who have a setuid'ed root /bin/mkdir, or a non 4.2 BSD (or
greater) system, will most likely be interested in this fix.

doug davis
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