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Date:      Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:13:33 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        Steve Reid <sreid@sea-to-sky.net>
Cc:        Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ncurses buffer overflows (fwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010101912540.4283-100000@achilles.silby.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010101908580.4266-100000@achilles.silby.com>

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On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Mike Silbersack wrote:

> Well, the advisory states that ncurses 5.0 and before are vulnerable.  It
> looks like 5.1-prerelease is what 4.1+ are using.  So, until we here more
> from warner/kris, I'm assuming that 4.0/3.x are vulnerable, but 4.1+ is
> safe.
> 
> (The exploit didn't work for me either, FWIW.)
> 
> Mike "Silby" Silbersack

I partially retract that.  It looks like 3.x doesn't use ncurses, if I'm
reading cvs properly.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack



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