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Date:      Thu, 07 Sep 2000 15:50:13 -0600
From:      "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
To:        "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
Cc:        "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Vladimir Mencl, MK, susSED" <mencl@nenya.ms.mff.cuni.cz>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, security-officer@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: UNIX locale format string vulnerability (fwd) 
Message-ID:  <200009072150.e87LoDm26973@xerxes.courtesan.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Sep 2000 01:46:47 %2B0400." <20000908014646.A19231@nagual.pp.ru> 
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In message <20000908014646.A19231@nagual.pp.ru>
	so spake "Andrey A. Chernov" (ache):

> Speaking outside of locale/nls area, 'sudo' *must* internally
> 	setenv TERMCAP /usr/share/misc/termcap
> too, for the same reasons. Grep 'issetugid' through libraries is your
> friend.

That's way too platform specific; clearing TERMCAP (as well as
TERMPATH and TERMINFO) if it begins with a '/' would make more sense.

 - todd


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