From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,71171f53c22d92b5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-15 11:30:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!cycny01.gnilink.net!cyclone1.gnilink.net!peer01.cox.net!cox.net!border3.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 13:30:12 -0600 Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 14:30:16 -0500 From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: groleau@freeshell.org Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, es-mx, pt-br, fr-ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: C's trikery semantic opens up backdoor in new Linux kernel References: <3FB1A63C.9080200@nowhere.com> <8Eisb.14119$hB5.9208@nwrdny02.gnilink.net> <3FB1F484.50705@nowhere.com> <3FB44C78.5050501@nowhere.com> In-Reply-To: <3FB44C78.5050501@nowhere.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <3cCdnT8yhYZY4yuiRVn-uw@gbronline.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.9.86.30 X-Trace: sv3-wB20a4HUk+z9FABC+HikGQYfO34x5VJ8iCcnoOX4ZvRSOTPYFXiFGiugj3795rSfwoWYlzINzukgZa3!APILpbT7LkaoEVfrZThN+hxPXamfZoRYU7MT1Iv5St0ep9Ar+6FikbyfYy1Y+oUsuUN04d1ROrjH X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2518 Date: 2003-11-15T14:30:16-05:00 List-Id: Adrian Hoe wrote: > According to my understanding of the article, it was intended like this: > > if someone == root > > but the statement was deliberately/mistakenly written like this: > > if some = root Let me put it another way. The cracker meant it to be an assignment, and he/she also intended for it to not be noticed. -- Wes Groleau When all you have is a perl, everything looks like a string.