On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Adrian Voinea wrote: > Hello, > savetextmode, a utility that comes with SVGATextMode 1.8, saves the text > mode data in /tmp, in two files with the mode 644: > > [/tmp] > root@Death# ls -lA > total 1 > drwxrwxrwx 2 root gods 1024 Sep 24 1998 .X11-unix/ > > [/tmp] > root@Death# savetextmode > svgalib: Using S3 driver (Trio64, 4096K). > svgalib: s3: chipsets newer than S3-864 is not supported well yet. > svgalib: RAMDAC: Trio64: MCLK = 47.131 MHz > > [/tmp] > root@Death# ls -lA > total 35 > drwxrwxrwx 2 root gods 1024 Sep 24 1998 .X11-unix/ > -rw-r--r-- 1 root gods 32768 Oct 21 22:56 fontdata > -rw-r--r-- 1 root gods 385 Oct 21 22:56 textregs > > Also, I would like to add that savetextmode accepts no parameters. > So... any user on the system that knows that the root is using > SVGATextMode could link any of the files to a file that he wants to be > overwritten. > The e-mail is cc-ed to the maker of SVGATextMode, koen.gadeyneat_private > diff -Nur svgalib-1.3.1.buggy/utils/savetextmode svgalib-1.3.1/utils/savetextmode --- svgalib-1.3.1.buggy/utils/savetextmode Sat Aug 2 03:37:15 1997 +++ svgalib-1.3.1/utils/savetextmode Thu Oct 22 12:25:50 1998 @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ #!/bin/sh -restoretextmode -w /tmp/textregs -restorefont -w /tmp/fontdata +restoretextmode -w `mktemp /tmp/textregs.XXXXXX` +restorefont -w `mktemp /tmp/fontdata.XXXXXX` Stupid. dumped http://www.sekure.org Sekure/Uground Ind.
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