Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 23:03:07 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: dima@rdy.com Cc: Koga Youichirou <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, silby@silby.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fwd: WuFTPD: Providing *remote* root since at least1994 Message-ID: <3954410B.5716EE5D@softweyr.com> References: <200006240411.VAA82687@sivka.rdy.com>
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Dima Ruban wrote:
>
> What's the purpose of this patch?
> I didn't look at the code, but to me it sounds like it's pretty much
> irrelevant whether you gonna use ``foo(fmt, string)'' or ``foo(string)''
If string contains formatting codes, foo("%s", string) does the right
thing and just puts out the formatting codes in the string. foo(string)
tries to interpret the embedded format codes and blows the stack.
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