Re: [Nolug] local exploits for FreeBSD??

Joey Kelly wrote:

> Anyone know of any local exploits for FreeBSD? In particular,
> FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE #2
>
> Here's the deal... one of our egddrop shells was sniffed. Scott says that the
> only way to sniff is to have elevated privileges, to put the nic into
> promiscuous mode.
>
> Anyone have any thoughts about this?

You do need to have privilages to run a sniffer on FreeBSD for programs
like "sniff", "sniffit, "queso", etc.

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