Re: Pine, Pico, Pilot Program Overflow bug.

From: Jay D. Dyson (jdysonat_private)
Date: Wed Nov 28 2001 - 12:21:25 PST

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    On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Larry W. Cashdollar wrote: 
    
    > > 	Is the pico binary typically distro'd as suid root as is listed in
    > > the above document?  I can't imagine why it would need to be.  Seems like
    > > a recipe for disaster.
    >
    > That can't be right.  Its not on any of my boxes, and if it were it would
    > be a gaping security hole.
    
    	That's what throws me.  As listed at the top of the document in
    question (http://my.dreamwiz.com/hackingm/test.txt): 
    
    	[x82@xpl017elz /tmp]$ ls -la /usr/bin/pico
    	-rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root       160552 Jun 21  1999 /usr/bin/pico
    
    	Something's not right in Mudville...(unless I'm decaffeinated and
    missed something). 
    
    - -Jay
    
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