IRIX xfsdump hole

Summary
Description:standard symlink problem.
Author:Yuri Volobuev <volobuev@T1.CHEM.UMN.EDU>
Compromise: root (local)
Vulnerable Systems:IRIX, presumably 5.3, 6.2, 6.3
Date:7 May 1997
Details

te: Wed, 7 May 1997 05:48:00 -0500
From: Yuri Volobuev <volobuev@T1.CHEM.UMN.EDU>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
Subject: Irix: misc

[...]



uld write log file to /usr/tmp/bck.log, unasked for, which may
allow to get root.  Touch it.



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