From owner-freebsd-security Sun Nov 7 18:59:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from green.myip.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12E8914ECD for ; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 18:58:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] ident=green) by green.myip.org with esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 11kewA-000CBw-00; Sun, 07 Nov 1999 21:53:42 -0500 Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 21:53:41 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman X-Sender: green@green.myip.org To: matt Cc: Matt Behrens , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file name with questions - rm on it seg faults!!! In-Reply-To: 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 Sun, 7 Nov 1999, matt wrote: > > > This is the same 'bug' that find had w/ the possible exploit via the > periodic program, correct? I remember this being discussed but did not > recall seeing it applied to 'rm' .. BTW, Somewhere down the line, the > original author's email address was lost in the cc's.. Oh well.. > > -Matt That's correct, since they both use fts(3). I recall that it's still not fixed; even in OpenBSD's source, it's better than ours getting crashed, but it's still not fixed properly. > > On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > : Actually, the problem is fts(3) being broken. Use my little program for > : this situation over at http://www.freebsd.org/~green/deltree.c > : > : -- > : Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / > : green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' > : > : > : > : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > : with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > : > > -- > "If the primates that we came from had known that someday politicians > would come out of the...the gene pool, they'd a stayed up in the trees > and written evolution off as a bad idea. Hell, I always thought the > opposable thumb was overrated." > -Sheridan, "A Distant Star" > > -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message