--On Tuesday, November 16, 2004 03:16:44 PM +0100 Christian Kujau
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"ls" returned *instantly* with "No such file or directory" and smbd did
not go crazy. now i ask myself: how comes?
Because in the former case you were attempting to access a file through the
daemon. In the latter, you were attempting to access a file through a unix
utility. The former (smbd) is vulnerable. The latter (ls) apparently is
not.
Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu
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