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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2001 14:38:24 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/net/scotty3 Makefile pkg-plist ports/net/scotty3/files patch-fixes scotty.c patch-ac patch-ad
Message-ID:  <20010312143824.B86831@mollari.cthul.hu>
In-Reply-To: <200103121850.f2CIoYl73269@freefall.freebsd.org>; from mi@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:50:34AM -0800
References:  <200103121850.f2CIoYl73269@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:50:34AM -0800, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> mi          2001/03/12 10:50:34 PST
>=20
>   Modified files:
>     net/scotty3          Makefile pkg-plist=20
>     net/scotty3/files    patch-ac patch-ad=20
>   Added files:
>     net/scotty3/files    patch-fixes scotty.c=20
>   Log:
>   A number of changes and fixes:
>   	. build with or without TK (triggered by the NO_X knob)
>   	. build against TCL-8.3 -- with or without stubs
>   	. fix some bugs in the core Scotty code -- most notably
>   	  a bug in the icmp-command implementation, where an off-by-one
>   	  error in the argument processing loop resulted in random
>   	  crashes; all this fixes are grouped into a single file
>   	  patch-fixes
>   	. make scotty executable itself as small as it needs to be
>  =20
>   Approved by:	maintainer
>  =20
>   Perhaps, some  day the security officer  will tell me what  _exactly_ is
>   wrong with  regular Scotty (this  one is beta  of the new  version), and
>   I'll be able to freshen that one up too and remove the FORBIDDEN.

Sorry, I don't recall you ever having asked.  As I recall, there are a
number of buffer overflows in command-line arguments of setugid programs:

<command> [-flag] `perl -e 'print "a"x5000'`

Kris

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