Re: Major security flaw in Cybercash 2.1.2

Tim Scanlon (tfs@CHARM.SEALSOFT.COM)
Sat, 08 Nov 1997 00:35:20 -0500

On Fri, 7 Nov 1997 , Anonymous said:
>In CyberCash's server, when the "DEBUG" flag is on, the contents of
>all credit card transactions are written to a log file (named
>"Debug.log" by default).
>
>The easiest workaround I've found is to simply delete the existing
>Debug.log file. In my experience with the Solaris release, the
>CyberCash software does not create this file at start time when the
>DEBUG flag is set to 0.
>

ln -s Debug.log /dev/null

Works easier than deleting over and over I'd hazard.

Tim

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