SECURITY BUG IN INTERACTIVE UNIX SYSV386

[Bill Heiser]

In article <K47NHAI at dobag.in-berlin.de> lumpi at dobag.in-berlin.de (Joern Lubkoll) writes:
>davidg at aegis.UUCP (Dave McLane) writes:
>>New, but related subject: when ISC fires up after the login it puts
>>this really grotesque series of lines about copyrights and such
>>which I would like to get rid of. Anybody know if this is possible?
>use a binary editor and patch zero-bytes at beginning of the copyright
>strings, they will never be seen again..
>
Could something similar be done to "fix" something in the kernel
to disallow that "writing to user area" bug?  It seems that ISC
has a configurable parameter, but Esix does not.  


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