Slashes in filenames?

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.brl.mil
Mon Feb 18 07:52:26 AEST 1991


In article <thurlow.666756073 at convex.convex.com> thurlow at convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:
>... other things like the server permitting mknod()s by non-root
>users are still being found.

Oooh, this is bad news indeed.  If exploited, it basically completely
circumvents all UNIX security features.



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