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Date:      Thu, 07 Sep 2000 16:34:17 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>, "Vladimir Mencl, MK,     susSED" <mencl@nenya.ms.mff.cuni.cz>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org, security-officer@FreeBSD.org, millert@openbsd.org
Subject:   Re: UNIX locale format string vulnerability (fwd) 
Message-ID:  <200009072234.QAA07199@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Sep 2000 15:32:42 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009071532190.25298-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> 
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009071532190.25298-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>  

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009071532190.25298-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> Kris Kennaway writes:
: On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Warner Losh wrote:
: 
: > In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009071520310.16976-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> 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.

Ah, it shouldn't :-)

Warner


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