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Date:      3 Feb 1997 15:14:28 -0000
From:      tqbf@enteract.com
To:        spork@super-g.com, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Critical Security Problem in 4.4BSD crt0 
Message-ID:  <19970203151428.2485.qmail@char-star.rdist.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970203040747.18920A-100000@super-g.inch.com>

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In article <Pine.BSF.3.95.970203040747.18920A-100000@super-g.inch.com>, you wrote:
>What would happen if the "safe" 2.2 library were used under 2.1.6?  It
>certainly compiles OK...  Or am I smoking crack here?

The problem is much easier to resolve than that. Just remove locale
processing from crt0.c. A patch has been provided elsewhere. This
shouldn't break anything on most systems.

-- 
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Thomas Ptacek at EnterAct, L.L.C., Chicago, IL [tqbf@enteract.com]
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exit(main(kfp->kargc, argv, environ));




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