From: jgifford@attmail.com Subject: SERIOUS SECURITY PROBLEM (I think) Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1992 02:06:55 GMT
I was just logged in as a regular user, and there was a file in my home
directory that belongs to root, and I did an rm to it
rm -f test.c
and this is what I saw:
rm: remove 'test.c', overriding mode 0644?
to which I answered yes, and when i did an ls, the file was gone!!
This didn't happen under .95, .95a, .12, .95c++, but it is happening
under .96 (don't have the .96a yet)
I think this is a security risk, but I am not an expert. ;)
I just wanted everyone to be aware that this can happen, and maybe
it shouldn't?
Jim
jgifford@attmail.com