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Date:      Tue, 5 Jun 2001 06:58:52 -0500
From:      "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>
To:        freebsd-audit@freebsd.org
Cc:        mikeh@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fwd: [$HOME buffer overflow in SunOS 5.8 x86]
Message-ID:  <20010605065852.B30939@shade.nectar.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010604191356.A48356@shade.nectar.com>; from n@nectar.com on Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 07:13:57PM -0500
References:  <20010604185510.B47924@shade.nectar.com> <20010604191356.A48356@shade.nectar.com>

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On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 07:13:57PM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 06:55:11PM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> > There  are several  other potential  overflows (sprintf,  strcpy), but
> > here  is  a  patch  for  ones involving  HOME.   I  don't  think  this
> > represents a security problem, though.
> 
> Oops, forgot patch to extern.h.  Here's the whole set again, with that
> leading.

I had a dream last night  that someone already patched this, and more,
in  -CURRENT over  2 months  ago,  and that  I had  even reviewed  the
changes 8-)  I don't know why  I didn't check -CURRENT  before doing a
quick fix.

Mike, how about MFCing your mail commits?

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org

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