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Bugtraq archives for 3rd quarter (Jul-Sep) 1996: Re: rdist exploit [bsdi]

Re: rdist exploit [bsdi]

Cosimo Leipold (leipold+andrew.cmu.edu)
Sat, 13 Jul 1996 11:58:04 -0400 

With relation to the BSDI rdist exploit, it seems logical that it may
work on some systems and not others. I don't know what it is dependent
on, (only have one or two machines to try it on, and they both spawned a
 shell) However some of you might be interested to know that it works on
a commercial version as well (though there is no real reason it
shouldnt) But on the following system, it worked, and it is a commercial
system;

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