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Date:      Sat, 27 Jun 1998 14:38:15 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        "Aaron D. Gifford" <agifford@infowest.com>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: (FWD) QPOPPER REMOTE ROOT EXPLOIT 
Message-ID:  <3731.898983495@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Jun 1998 13:04:02 MDT." <35954222.F20D2144@infowest.com> 

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> Does the patch to pop_msg.c take into account that a "(void)strcat(message,
> "\r\n"); call appears later on and adds 2 more chars to the message buffer?  

Heh, no.  I missed that.  Here's a revised patch:

--- pop_msg.c.orig	Sat Jun 27 03:09:47 1998
+++ pop_msg.c	Sat Jun 27 14:35:49 1998
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 {
     POP             *   p;
     int                 stat;               /*  POP status indicator */
+    int			l, len;		    /*  remaining buffer length */
     char            *   format;             /*  Format string for the message */
     va_list             ap;
     register char   *   mp;
@@ -50,6 +51,7 @@
 
     /*  Point to the message buffer */
     mp = message;
+    len = sizeof(message);
 
     /*  Format the POP status code at the beginning of the message */
     if (stat == POP_SUCCESS)
@@ -58,17 +60,18 @@
         (void)sprintf (mp,"%s ",POP_ERR);
 
     /*  Point past the POP status indicator in the message message */
-    mp += strlen(mp);
+    l = strlen(mp);
+    len -= l, mp += l;
 
     /*  Append the message (formatted, if necessary) */
     if (format) 
 #ifdef HAVE_VPRINTF
-        vsprintf(mp,format,ap);
+        vsnprintf(mp,len,format,ap);
 #else
 # ifdef PYRAMID
-        (void)sprintf(mp,format, arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4, arg5, arg6);
+        (void)snprintf(mp,len,format, arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4, arg5, arg6);
 # else
-        (void)sprintf(mp,format,((int *)ap)[0],((int *)ap)[1],((int *)ap)[2],
+        (void)snprintf(mp,len,format,((int *)ap)[0],((int *)ap)[1],((int *)ap)[2],
                 ((int *)ap)[3],((int *)ap)[4]);
 # endif
 #endif
@@ -87,7 +90,8 @@
                (p->user ? p->user : "(null)"), p->client, message);
 
     /*  Append the <CR><LF> */
-    (void)strcat(message, "\r\n");
+    len -= strlen(message);
+    (void)strncat(message, len, "\r\n");
         
     /*  Send the message to the client */
     (void)fputs(message,p->output);

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