5 pointsby pseudohadamard4 hours ago2 comments
  • tetradium_953 hours ago
    Nice find. I hadn't come across this before.
    • pseudohadamard3 hours ago
      11:25am: Fifty-year-old copy of Unix recovered from old tape backup.

      11:27am: First vulnerability found.

  • pseudohadamard4 hours ago
    In UNIX Fourth Research Edition (v4), the su command is vulnerable to a buffer overflow due to the 'password' variable having a fixed size of 100 bytes. A local user can exploit this to gain root privileges. It is unlikely that UNIX v4 is running anywhere outside of a very small number of lab environments.

    Related: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/unix-v4-recovere...