From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jul 6 12:36:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from wat-border.sentex.ca (waterloo-hespler.sentex.ca [199.212.135.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F5E437B91F for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 12:36:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by wat-border.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA43416; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 15:36:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simoeon.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [209.112.4.47]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA22435; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 15:36:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000706152923.02a77ed0@marble.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@marble.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 15:32:25 -0400 To: Brett Glass From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: ftpd and setproctitle() Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000706132133.04a94ad0@localhost> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000706113724.04789470@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 01:28 PM 7/6/00 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: >Thank you! I've checked 3.1, and it's OK too. Theo just wrote >to say that he thinks the bug originated in BSD 4.4-Lite. (And, >I guess, has been around since that time due to the wonderful >error-encouraging nature of the C language -- Sigh.) > >I'm hoping that the bug was nailed prior to 2.2.8, which a number >of sites with an "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" policy are still >running. From a couple of internal machines, FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE #0: Thu Aug 5 11:47:38 EDT 1999 * Save start and extent of argv for setproctitle. setproctitle("%s", proctitle); setproctitle("%s", proctitle); setproctitle("%s", proctitle); setproctitle(const char *fmt, ...) setproctitle(fmt, va_alist) 2.2.7-STABLE #0: Mon Aug 10 09:53:43 EDT 1998 * Save start and extent of argv for setproctitle. setproctitle("%s", proctitle); setproctitle("%s", proctitle); setproctitle("%s", proctitle); setproctitle(const char *fmt, ...) setproctitle(fmt, va_alist) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications mike@sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message