Casper.DikSun.COM
Date: Wed Dec 22 2004 - 11:56:18 CST

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>/bin/sh exists to run shell commands. That is the purpose of the
>shell. NASM, on the other hand, is designed to create object files
>from assembly files. If NASM starts running arbitrary code on your
>machine, it's doing something unauthorized. That is a security hole.
>By typing "nasm file.S" you are not intending to authorize the author
>of file.S to take over your account, right?

What other purpose does NASM have other than to compile code
and then, implicitely, run it?

I could buy the argument for a webbrowser or a wordprocessor;
but a assembler or compiler?

>Also, could you please show me this shell script you speak of? All the
>shell scripts I know of that give me root access require me to type the
>root password. If you have found a way around this, then you are
>correct, "every UNIX system on Earth has a remote hole". :)

Any script which exploits a local security hole would do.

>Setting buff[1023] to '\0' is a good idea, since vsnprintf won't do
>that if vsprintf(buff, fmt, args) generates 1024 bytes.

You should have paid better attention in class.

Casper

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