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SubjectRe: scsi-destroyer.c to come...
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Stephen Frost wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Stephen Frost wrote:
> >
> > > And yet you would need to be root to do this, and I would suspect
> > > it *much* more likely a clueless root user would cat junk to /dev/sda than
> > > a program run as root which uses ioctl's would clobber it's own memory
> > > space and nuke the disk. Probably alot more likely any such program would
> > > segfault before doing much actually.
> >
> > Assume a security exploit of you /bin/bash.

Oh, and by the way, my /bin/bash isn't suid root. Feel free to buffer
overflow and exploit it all you like. You shouldn't be able to get root access
from it. If you can, Linux is broken and should be fixed.

Stephen


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