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Date:      Fri, 4 Dec 2009 08:15:06 +1300
From:      Andrew Thompson <thompsa@nz.FreeBSD.org>
To:        Timo Schoeler <timo.schoeler@riscworks.net>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-09:16.rtld
Message-ID:  <20091203191506.GA24957@citylink.fud.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <4B180C40.3040001@riscworks.net>
References:  <200912030930.nB39UhW9038238@freefall.freebsd.org> <4B179B90.10307@netfence.it> <8ABB1EE2-4521-40EC-9E85-4A0E771D6B7F@mac.com> <200912031837.nB3IbEKB036114@catflap.bishopston.net> <4B180B03.1040405@thedarkside.nl> <4B180C40.3040001@riscworks.net>

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On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 08:06:40PM +0100, Timo Schoeler wrote:
> On 12/03/2009 08:01 PM, Pieter de Boer wrote:
> > Jamie Landeg Jones wrote:
> >>
> >> However, I'd still apply the patch in case some other way to exploit
> >> the non-checking of the unsetenv return status crops up elsewhere.
> >>
> >> It can't do any harm.
> > 
> > The problem with that is, on 6.x, unsetenv() returns 'void', so there's
> > no return value to check on.
> > 
> > On 6.x (I've looked at 6.4-RELEASE-p7, it may be different in other
> > versions), the unsetenv() uses __findenv() in a while loop to remove the
> > given setting. The getenv() function also uses __findenv() to find the
> > given environment setting. The issue described in the advisory simply
> > doesn't exist in 6(.4-RELEASE-p7).
> 
> patch doesn't complain on the diff, but compiling gives me the following
> error on 6.4-STABLE (i386):

To quote the advisory

"Affects:        FreeBSD 7.0 and later."


Andrew



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