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Date:      Wed, 30 Aug 1995 04:11:41 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM, security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [8lgm]-Advisory-22.UNIX.syslog.2-Aug-1995 (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199508291811.EAA28657@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>from a quick persual of the syslog.c that we have in -stable, i'd say 
>that FreeBSD is vunerable to this attack.  our syslog has fixed size 
>buffers and uses sprintf to write to them.  should be changed to 
>snprintf--a quick persual says that should do the trick

>shades of rtm

Anyone for execute-protected data by default if the machine can support
it?  Programs that want to execute data should have to request it and
everything else would be more secure.

Bruce



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