[10054] in bugtraq
Re: Bug in xfs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthieu Herrb)
Wed Mar 31 01:48:02 1999
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 08:04:17 +0200
Reply-To: matthieu@laas.fr
From: Matthieu Herrb <matthieu@LAAS.FR>
X-To: Lukasz Trabinski <lukasz@LT.WSISIZ.EDU.PL>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9903292354300.1677-100000@lt.wsisiz.edu.pl>
You wrote (in your message from Tuesday 30)
>
> I hope that's information will be useful for making new patch for
> XFree86.
>
> I found bug in xfs
This is caused by the same bug in xc/lib/xtrans that "in.telnetd"
<telnetd@DOEMILL.SHOCKING.COM> reported under the subject "X11R6 NetBSD
Security Problem" last week.
The patch I submitted (with stat() replaced by lstat(), as noted by
Kevin Vajk and other) also fixes that.
--
Matthieu
