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Subject: Re: Solaris patchadd(1) (3) symlink vulnerabilty
From: Neulinger, Nathan R. (nneulUMR.EDU)
Date: Thu Dec 21 2000 - 13:42:00 CST


On most suns I've seen, /tmp is mounted against swap. In that case, simply
booting into single user mode would be sufficient, since /tmp will
automatically be clear.

-- Nathan

>I do indeed stand corrected: The only 2 sollutions are:
>1) change to single user mode by means of init S
> and rm -rf /tmp/* /tmp/.*
>2) shutdown and boot -s into single user mode.