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Date:      Wed, 20 Oct 1999 10:59:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        gallatin@FreeBSD.ORG (Andrew Gallatin)
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/chpass pw_yp.c
Message-ID:  <199910201759.KAA06036@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199910201520.IAA50392@freefall.freebsd.org> from Andrew Gallatin at "Oct 20, 1999 08:20:01 am"

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Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> gallatin    1999/10/20 08:20:00 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     usr.bin/chpass       pw_yp.c 
>   Log:
>   fix a serious bug where, on alpha, due to a an int/long type mismatch,
>   the uid arg to use_yp() was getting clobbered by the call to my_yp_match().
>   This led to a problem where a NIS user could edit root's passwd information.
>   

Yikes!

Does this warrant a message to CERT about a possible security
problem?

-- 
Steve


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