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Date:      Fri, 8 Sep 2000 14:47:07 +0200
From:      Gabor Zahemszky <ZGabor@CoDe.hu>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Cc:        kris@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UNIX locale format string vulnerability (fwd)
Message-ID:  <20000908144707.F682@zg.CoDe.hu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009070223140.87691-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>; from kris@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 02:53:51AM -0700
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009071114230.354-100000@bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009070223140.87691-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 02:53:51AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> HOWEVER: no program shipped in the FreeBSD base system is believed to be
> vulnerable to either of these problems.
> 
> They both affect catopen(), and we don't use that function at all except
> in tcsh, which is non-privileged. We don't even have any code which has

Oops!

On my 3.4R system, there is a little utility, named: ee (and ree), and it
is using catopen().  I don't think it changed in 4.x, is it?

ZGabor at CoDe dot HU

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