[Full-Disclosure] Security hole in Confixx backup script

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:16:43 +0200, Thomas Loch said:
> What would I have to do then? (excuse my lack of knowledge, please)

'man cp' and 'man chmod'.  Given cp and chmod and initial access to the
ability to run commands as a suitable user, a set-UID bash is achievable...

(Note that you end up with a bash set-UID to the userid you do it under - that DOES
matter...)
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