SECURITY BUG IN INTERACTIVE UNIX SYSV386

Sean Eric Fagan sef at kithrup.COM
Thu Feb 14 07:44:08 AEST 1991


In article <1739 at svin02.info.win.tue.nl> debra at info.win.tue.nl writes:
>This (and other postings) suggests that the problem would be found
>in the more generic sVr3.2 from AT&T.

It was.  Note that it was in the *original* release of 3.2 for the '386.

>So it looks like somehow the same bug ended up in ESIX and ISC
>(and AT&T sVr3.1?) but not in AT&T sVr3.2.1 or SCO.

SCO noticed it and fixed it for their release of 3.2.0; ISC, ESIX, and
others apparantly didn't notice it until later, if at all.

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