RE: [cobalt-security] RaQ4-All-Kernel-1.0.1-2.216C24III.pkg

[Peter Batenburg <peter@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I think you should be scared.This bug is known about one month now. And 
other exploits like this exist for kernels lower than 2.2.19 exist. These 
bugs has been discovered many months ago, and it seems like there is still 
no fix for cobalt systems.

At 16:35 26-4-2001 -0400, you wrote:
> > [admin@xx10 admin]$ ./prak /usr/sbin/traceroute
> > bug exploited successfully.
> > enjoy!
> > bash# id
> > bash# uid=0(root) gid=0(root)
> > groups=27(admin),10(wheel),110(home),111(site-adm)
> > bash# uname -a
> > bash# Linux xx10.test.nl 2.2.16C24_III #1 Thu Mar 22 21:17:39 PST 2001
> i586
> > unknown
> > bash#
> >
> > Yeah, i see its fixed.
>
> This almost scares me.