From owner-freebsd-security Tue Feb 25 5:13:23 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB04437B401 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 05:13:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from gw.nectar.cc (gw.nectar.cc [208.42.49.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED66243FBF for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 05:13:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nectar@celabo.org) Received: from madman.celabo.org (madman.celabo.org [10.0.1.111]) by gw.nectar.cc (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6738654; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 07:13:19 -0600 (CST) Received: by madman.celabo.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 508C278C44; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 07:13:19 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 07:13:19 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: Uwe Doering Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: buffer overrun in zlib 1.1.4 Message-ID: <20030225131319.GA95282@madman.celabo.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" , Uwe Doering , freebsd-security@freebsd.org References: <20030224160844.GE82145@nevermind.kiev.ua> <20030224162747.GB87372@madman.celabo.org> <3E5B4025.60509@geminix.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E5B4025.60509@geminix.org> X-Url: http://www.celabo.org/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i-ja.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 11:06:29AM +0100, Uwe Doering wrote: > Also, there is an explicit > > -DHAS_snprintf -DHAS_vsnprintf > > added to CFLAGS in the Makefile. So, as far as I understand the > situation, the version in the base system should be immune against this > buffer overrun, anyway. Yes, you're right about the overrun. The caveats about truncation may apply to those applications that do not check Z_PRINTF_BUFSIZE. Cheers, -- Jacques A. Vidrine http://www.celabo.org/ NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal Kerberos jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@FreeBSD.org . nectar@kth.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message