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Date:      Tue, 20 Dec 1994 20:26:25 -0800
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua (Andrew V. Stesin)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [?!] So, is this a bug in the kernel execve() code? 
Message-ID:  <199412210426.UAA00561@corbin.Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Dec 94 01:20:06 GMT." <D1351I.AM5@store.elvisti.kiev.ua> 

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>I tried to dig into that piece of kernel code, but sorry -- I'm not
>a wisard, I'm not a kernel hacker, I'm not even on a mailing list.
>I personally have no idea about how legal this behavior is and how to
>fix it.  I don't even know -- was this reported yet or not?
>
>So, questions.
>
>	1. How valid the described behavior is? If it isn't considered
>	   valid, how one can fix it?
>	2. Is there a set of "official" patches for 1.1.5? Where?
>	   We're running vanilla 1.1.5.0 kernel, I only replaced
>	   some user-area utilities. Maybe some bugfix patches are
>	   needed?

   The bug was fixed shortly after it was reported - about 5 months ago. A
patch to fix this and many other bugs should still be available on ref.tfs.com.

-DG



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