Re: OpenBSD 2.9,2.8 local root compromise

[Jason R Thorpe]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 09:18:15AM +0200, Andreas Haugsnes wrote:

 > I must say that I gasped and had to wipe sweat from my
 > forehead when I read, tested and could confirm this
 > exploit.
 > 
 > The OpenBSD-team has known about this for -6- days (15th of June),
 > and they haven't been able to come up with atleast a temporary fix?
 > I can't find anything on errdata / security warnings,
 > what's up with that?

If it's any consolation, NetBSD now (as of the 15th) has a fix for this
problem in-tree (a pullup for the impending 1.5.1 release is in the queue),
and we only found out about it on the 14th.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>