Re: ***HUGE*** security hole??!! (Re: Lost root passwd)
Michael Beattie <mickyb@es.co.nz> writes:
> other=/dev/hda1
> label=Win
> loader=/boot/chain.b
> table=/dev/hda
> [end]
This means a malicious person will be able to download the ext2 driver
in Win95 (if it is running) and the person will be able to read
shadow.
--
Jens.Ritter@weh.rwth-aachen.de grimaldi@debian.org
KeyID: 2048/E451C639 1998/01/28
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Here is a patch for one of the nastiest 2.1 (and earlier)
problems: the uptime counter wraps back to zero after 497 days. The
heartbreak of seeing that carefully-nurtured uptime go to zero is not
something that should be inflicted on anybody.
-- http://lwn.net/ August 27, 1998
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