Re: FreeBSD remote root exploit ?
From: Assar Westerlund (assar@FreeBSD.ORG)
Date: 07/19/01
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To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> From: Assar Westerlund <assar@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: 19 Jul 2001 19:18:58 +0200
Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> writes:
> It's even owrse... size_t is unsigned, so once you overflow the buffer
> the 'remaining' amount will be some huge number and you are screwed.
Yeah, I know. I changed them to `int' too. But if it wouldn't have
overflowed, it wouldn't have mattered...
/assar
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