On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 01:55:26PM +1000, Michael Mansour wrote: > I run perl 5.8.3 in suid mode on Fedora Core 1, and > have recently detected an attempted exploit which > basically crashed my system (well, I was able to > recover by removing the 15 byte /etc/ld.so.preload > file which tries to reference, as part of the exploit, > a /tmp/getuid.so file). > > I've brought the server up again, but am not sure now > how I can defend against this attack since FC1 and > perl 5.8.3 are the latest. > > Anyone have any suggestions? Well.... <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=152845> -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 76 degrees Fahrenheit. -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
