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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:34:30 +1100 (EST)
From: Dave Horsfall <dave@...sfall.org>
To: OSS Security <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: Abusing TZ for fun (and little profit)
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> $ TZ=$PWD/tz sudo -u root strace -e read date
Perhaps I've missed something here, but surely if you have "sudo"
privileges then you can read the file for yourself? And if you're trying
to trace a set-uid program then it won't work anyway? Neither my Mac nor
my FreeBSD box have "strace", and my Penguin is dead, so I cannot verify
this.
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Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU)
http://www.horsfall.org/spam.html
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