rlogin(1) security bug in ISC UNIX

Thu Mar 21 09:14:21 AEST 1991

In article <1991Mar19.014000.7582 at virtech.uucp> cpcahil at virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
> There exists a bug in the rlogin daemon on ISC UNIX 2.2 which under
> certain conditions will allow a non-privileged user to become root.

We had the same problem in Intel V.3.2u. It doesn't exist in the latest
Intel. Yet another reason to dread getting kicked over to ISC.
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