From owner-freebsd-security Thu Sep 7 15:32:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9BF837B423; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 15:32:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA25359; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 15:32:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 15:32:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Warner Losh Cc: "Todd C. Miller" , "Vladimir Mencl, MK, susSED" , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org, security-officer@FreeBSD.org, millert@openbsd.org Subject: Re: UNIX locale format string vulnerability (fwd) In-Reply-To: <200009072227.QAA07066@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > In message Kris Kennaway writes: > : I think all of the following can be pointed to arbitrary files as well > : in setlocale(): > : "LANG" > > LANG cannot. If it contains /, it is ignored. setlocale(), not catopen(). It is treated on the same footing as all of the others, there. Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message