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Date:      Sat, 9 Nov 2002 13:23:58 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Dario Freni <saturnero@freesbie.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Buffer overflow in /usr/bin/dialog
Message-ID:  <20021109212358.GE32110@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021109200522.3a05171a.saturnero@freesbie.org>
References:  <20021109200522.3a05171a.saturnero@freesbie.org>

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On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 08:05:22PM +0100, Dario Freni wrote:
> I've just reported the bug here:
>=20
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D45168
>=20
> Please test and let me know if you have the same problem.

Yes, it's a known problem.  dialog (or libdialog) should never be used
in privileged situations because it is chock full of buffer overflows.
It would be a fairly large effort to fix all the problems.

Nothing in the base system is affected by these problems.

Kris


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