Re: Potential security problem with mtr

From: Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolffat_private)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2000 - 15:40:38 PST

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Viktor Fougstedt wrote:
> mtr-0.28 seems to be a standard package in some Linux distributions,
> but it is not known whether it is installed setuid-root.

0.41 is current.

> The authors have been contacted, but no reply has been received. The
> latest version is from Aug 19 1999, and I am uncertain whether mtr is
> still being actively developed.

I'm the maintainer. I haven't been contacted. Viktor, may I ask you to
do your homework a bit better next time?

				Roger.

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