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From: doug@letni.UUCP (Doug Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix
Subject: mkdir security bug   ****FIX POSTED***
Summary: mkdir security bug   ****FIX POSTED***
Keywords: mkdir bug
Message-ID: <962@altos86.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 89 02:59:35 GMT
Sender: dtynan@altos86.UUCP
Reply-To: gatech!cs.utexas.edu!letni!doug (Doug Davis)
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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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