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Date:         Thu, 25 May 2000 11:42:42 +0200
From: Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel@MANDRAKESOFT.COM>
Subject:      Re: kscd vulnerability
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM

Matt Wilson <msw@REDHAT.COM> writes:

> Red Hat Linux does not ship kscd setuid.

Same for Linux-Mandrake :

chmou@kenobi)[~]-% rpm -qpl -v /RPMS/kdemultimedia-1.1.2-11mdk.i586.rpm |grep -w bin/kscd
-rwxr-xr-x     root     root       200048 Apr 17 15:58 /usr/bin/kscd


> > sorry for not sending an advisory, but i don't
> > have much time. :)
> > I think the exploit is well commented.
> >
> > regards,
> > Sebastian
> >
> > mail: Permission denied. Detected symlink to /etc/ld.so.preload.
> >       Admin has been informed.
> > [exploit_user@lucifer]$ /tmp/boomshell
> > [root@lucifer]#
> >  	
>

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