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Date:      Tue, 12 Sep 2000 11:42:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [paul@STARZETZ.DE: Breaking screen on BSD]
Message-ID:  <200009121542.LAA94930@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20000912065314.A43158@nagual.pp.ru>
References:  <20000912061357.A42654@nagual.pp.ru> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009112127170.85133-100000@achilles.silby.com> <20000912065314.A43158@nagual.pp.ru>

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<<On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 06:53:14 +0400, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> said:

> Screen 3.9.8 is not vulnerable to this. By "new" I mean part of it related
> to execve behaviour which is generally dangerous, not whole exploit at
> once.

There is nothing wrong with the behavior of execve.  Only a program
which was already insecure can be exploited through this technique.

-GAWollman



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