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1996 Nov 29
1
Denial of service.
There are conflicting reports about wether or not Red Hat 4.0 is
vulnerable to the login-lockout described earlier. I have the
impression that if you install the updates it will have been fixed.
Approval of messages about this subject is now restricted to
"here is a patch", and a vendors "We have made a patch available".
Roger.
1996 Nov 14
0
setgid binaries
...mp;ut, sizeof(ut));
flock(wtmp, LOCK_UN);
This is the simple "force the lock if we can''t get it" solution. If
your wtmp is on an ext2fs, it is pretty unlikely that the solution
"without locking" will corrupt anything. However there are race
conditions in the ext2fs_write_file code that would allow an entry
to get overwritten in special circumstances. -- REW]
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