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Date:      Sat, 11 Jan 1997 18:50:20 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Steve Reid <steve@edmweb.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: serious security bug in wu-ftpd v2.4 (fwd) 
Message-ID:  <199701120250.SAA23491@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Jan 1997 15:10:55 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.95.970108150849.256B-100000@bitbucket.edmweb.com> 

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>Since David Greenman's patch was posted here, I figure this should be
>posted here as well... 
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 23:02:51 -0500 (EST)
>From: Wietse Venema <wietse@porcupine.org>
>Reply-To: best-of-security@suburbia.net
>To: best-of-security@suburbia.net
>Cc: wu-ftpd-bugs@academ.com, best-of-security@suburbia.net
>Subject: BoS:  serious security bug in wu-ftpd v2.4
>Resent-Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 18:44:21 +1100 (EST)
>Resent-From: best-of-security@suburbia.net
>
>Two brief comments on the patches that were suggested sofar.
>
>- The patch proposed by David Greenman (clear the transflag variable
>in function dologout()) makes the window of opportunity much smaller,
>but does not close it. The hole still exists. It's just smaller.

   I disagree with Wietse's assertion that my patch is insufficient and I don't
think that all of the extra signal blocking code is necessary.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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