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Date:      Thu, 07 Sep 2000 15:26:56 -0600
From:      "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, "Vladimir Mencl, MK,     susSED" <mencl@nenya.ms.mff.cuni.cz>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org, security-officer@FreeBSD.org, millert@openbsd.org
Subject:   Re: UNIX locale format string vulnerability (fwd) 
Message-ID:  <200009072126.e87LQuE12710@xerxes.courtesan.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Sep 2000 14:19:06 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009071356030.8316-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> 
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009071356030.8316-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009071356030.8316-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
	so spake Kris Kennaway (kris):

> Again, the problem here is with sudo, not with something that comes in
> FreeBSD.

How is this a sudo problem?  Do you expect sudo to strip away the NLS
env vars for you?  This would not be unprecedented, as sudo already
strips out LD_* and friends but breaking locales seems a bit dodgy.

As I haven't seen the entire thread I'm clearly missing some info...

 - todd


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