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Bugtraq archives for 3rd quarter (Jul-Sep) 1994: Re: Sending escape sequences to xterms via wall/talk

Re: Sending escape sequences to xterms via wall/talk

jmcgnu.ai.mit.edu
Wed, 20 Jul 1994 15:28:21 -0400 (EDT) 

>
>> Of course having a sym link in your file space along the lines of:
>> core -> /dev/rsd0a and as xterm runs as root, is also a good way of
>> breaking your machine...
>
>setuid programs don't produce core dumps; it's a security feature.

Wanna bet? I've gotten them to do this under Solaris before. I'm gonna
have to go see if I can find an example, but I remember getting
fusage to core under 2.2 fairly easily.

James