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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78/info
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makebootdisk creates the file /tmp/return insecurely and follows symbolic links. An attacker can create a symbolic link from /tmp/return to any file and wait for root to run the program. This will clober the target file. The file created has permissions -rw-r--r--.
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$ ln -s /tmp/return /etc/passwd
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< wait for root to run makebootdisk > |