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Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Wed Dec 7 13:38:32 UTC 2005


On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 08:12:17AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> >Cos' that user is only allowed to do cp mv and chmod, not anything
> >> > else.
> >> And thats enough to own the box.
> >How?
> If he can cp and mv something malicious, then chown it to a lower 
> numbered user, I think he could gain root privs if he was suitably 
> creative.  Maybe not, but it would certainly bear watching/logging IMO.

ch*mod*, not chown. :)


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