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Date:      Thu, 06 Jul 2000 14:08:21 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        "Chris D. Faulhaber" <jedgar@fxp.org>
Cc:        Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET>, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ftpd and setproctitle()
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20000706135700.043ea100@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007061536400.59495-100000@pawn.primelocatio n.net>
References:  <4.3.2.7.2.20000706132133.04a94ad0@localhost>

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At 01:42 PM 7/6/2000, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote:
  
>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/libexec/ftpd/ftpd.c.diff?r1=1.13&r2=1.14

Y'know, there's a VERY interesting comment in there:

>/*
> * Clobber argv so ps will show what we're doing.  (Stolen from sendmail.)
> *

Which explains how it got into ftpd in the first place.

I checked the Sendmail sources, and apparently they wrap setproctitle() in
a routine called sm_setproctitle(). They're safe, but the folks who copied
were not.

--Brett




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