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- Subject: Re: HELP!!! Security problem for gurus. [Directories]
- Message-ID: <12899001@zl2tnm.gen.nz>
- From: don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes)
- Date: 2 Jan 93 16:10:55 GMT
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- leichter@lrw.com (Jerry Leichter) writes:
- > very high cost estimates, or add things by just doing them. A famous example
- > is the reverse-video "Interrupt" you get for CTRL/Y. This started out as a
- > joke played on the VMS group by the terminal driver implementor: He snuck it
- > in one day. Everyone liked it, so it ended up in the product.
-
- It's worse than that. Check out SYS$EXAMPLES:SYSGTTSTR.MSG sometime....
-
- (My system says "Ouch!" of you hit Ctrl/Y... 8-)
-
- > Seriously, I have a copy of the ODS-II spec - after all, I *did* work for DEC
- > for 12 years! It's not a particularly secret spec; I know other people have
- > copies, probably more recent ones than mine.
-
- There was a copy on a the ?Fall '91? L&T tape, or at least something that
- looked very much like it. I uses RSX style specifications. The ODS-1 spec
- was there too, along with some stuff on RMS-11 (not VAX RMS) internals.
-
- > >BTW, it's not impossible that SOME invalid directory entries will
- > >could cause (probably non-fatal) bugchecks.
- >
- > I remember seeing RMS bugs in the past that would delete the erring
- > process upon encountering certain errors in on-disk or file structure.
- > I was always surprised to find such dramatic bugs in RMS, an otherwise
- > extremely robust-seeming entity...
-
- I've seen of corrupt directories blow the XQP out of the water, closely
- followed by the rest of the system.... I think it was V5.3 that exhibited
- that bug. And no, BUGCHECKFATAL was *not* set....
-
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