full-disclosure - Vulnerability in sourceforge.net

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20040721233658.34A8D28B4B@ws1-1a.us4.outblaze.com>
From: danduplito at techie.com (Dan Duplito)
Subject: Vulnerability in sourceforge.net

> nicolas vigier <boklm@...s-attacks.org> wrote:
>
> It's not a mis-configuration, this does not allow you to look at any
> secret file, only the files that the user nobody can read.

well, user "nobody" has shell access (/bin/sh) and is allowed read access to /etc/passwd file and probably other system files as well.

i'm wondering if the discoverer (Alexander) already informed the authors of the app...