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CAUTION: A Sun patch was issued on December 6, 1992 to give system administrators the option of running xterm setuid root.
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Anybody that isn't alarmed when warned that their 'setuid' executable has been modified has no business giving advice on a computer forum.
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Then there's software that runs as an a CGI program without a setuid wrapper : 666 is the number of the beast *and* world writeable files.
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Search the system for new or modified setuid root files. find/- user root - perm -4000 - print If you are using NFS or AFS file systems, use ncheck to search the local file systems. ncheck - s/dev/sd0a
CA-95:01 CERT Advisory IP Spoofing Attacks and Hijacked Terminal Connections 1996
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Search the system for new or modified setuid root files. find/- user root - perm -4000 - print If you are using NFS or AFS file systems, use ncheck to search the local file systems. ncheck - s/dev/sd0a
CA-95:01 CERT Advisory IP Spoofing Attacks and Hijacked Terminal Connections 1996
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The recommended workaround is to change the permissions of all the programs in the/usr/lpp/bosperf directory structure so that the setuid bit is removed and the programs can be executed only by 'root'.
CA-94:03 CERT Advisory IBM AIX Performance Tools Vulnerabilities 1994
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If the setuid or setgid privilege bit is not set on the xterm program, the vulnerability cannot be exploited.
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If either the setuid or setgid privilege bit is set on the xterm program, the vulnerability can be exploited.
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Sun Sun's version of xterm has not been setuid root since at least as far back as SunOS 4.1.1, and probably further.
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This vulnerability potentially affects all systems running xterm with the setuid or setgid bit set.
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