Mysterious security hole
Marc Ph. A. J. St.-Gil
mstgil at sol.acs.unt.edu
Thu Jun 13 04:40:51 AEST 1991
cgd at ocf.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:
>In article <91161.131540SCHDAVZ at YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> SCHDAVZ at YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Dave Schweisguth) writes:
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>Say, for example, that PATH is set so that . comes before /bin -
>Also, say that someone has in a directory a shell script, executable, or
>whatever named the same as a common command in /bin such as, say, rm.
How about 'ls' instead of 'rm'... much easier to see the danger here
what's the most common command you use after changing to a new directory?
^^^^^^^^^^ a rhetorical question :)
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