Re: Bug in 2.2.3

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Wed, 17 Mar 1999 08:39:13 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Nuno Loureiro wrote:

>
> Hi!!
>
> Tonight, I found that doing a kill -9 -1 as a normal user kills root
> processes in 2.2.3ac1.
>
> I talked with other person and he had the same results with 2.2.3
> plain.
>
> I don't have time to test it with older versions to see if they are
> vulnerable too.
>
> Regards,
>
> Nuno Loureiro
>

kill -9 -1 as a normal user doesn't kill anything I don't own on
Version 2.2.3. Are you sure you don't have a hacked suid bash??

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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