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Date:      Wed, 04 Oct 2000 11:49:47 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        K2 <ktwo@KTWO.CA>
Cc:        security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OpenBSD Security Advisory 
Message-ID:  <200010041749.LAA38070@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Oct 2000 00:31:03 PDT." <39DADCB7.4E416D8B@ktwo.ca> 
References:  <39DADCB7.4E416D8B@ktwo.ca>  

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I've had two requests from users to go through this and report on
FreeBSD's status.  I answered the fstat's portion in earlier mail, so
I'll just say we aren't vulnerable and haven't been for a long long
time.

Since we're not vulnerable to any of these, I have a problem posting
that to bugtraq as those sorts of messages tend to create a lot of
clutter and ill will.

In message <39DADCB7.4E416D8B@ktwo.ca> K2 writes:
: There is also su, although it is only exploitable by the
: usershell=format string,  there is a possibility that somebody have a
: third party application set the user shell to something that may be
: malicious.  Why no even passing mention in their "Daily Changelog"  or
: their security pages?
: 
: ---- SNIP -- SNIP ----
: rain:/usr/src/libexec/talkd# su - ktwo
: su: /usr/local/bin/bash0x00x1b150xdfbfdc8c0xdfbfdc280xdfbfdc2c: No such
: file or directory
: rain:/usr/src/libexec/talkd# cat /etc/passwd|grep ktwo
: ktwo:*:100:100:what's your
: style,,,:/home/ktwo:/usr/local/bin/bash%p%p%p%p%p

FreeBSD has been immmune to this attack for a long time (since at
least 1994, maybe earlier):

1.1          (rgrimes  27-May-94):      err(1, "%s", shell);

: talkd, A DEFAULT service.

FreeBSD has never had this hole, as far as I can tell.  We don't use
fprintf here, but instead we build an iovect list up.

: WOW what about photurisd?

We don't have photurisd.

Warner


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