[11174] in bugtraq
Re: Troff dangerous.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed Jul 28 23:54:24 1999
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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 16:38:52 -0400
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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@PIERMONT.COM>
X-To: Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>
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In-Reply-To: Aaron Campbell's message of "Tue, 27 Jul 1999 00:45:30 -0300"
Aaron Campbell <aaron@CS.DAL.CA> writes:
> On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Nic Bellamy wrote:
>
> > I've also checked OpenBSD 2.5 and FreeBSD 3.2 - the groff on both systems
> > defaults to the unsafe behaviour.
>
> OpenBSD-current has been fixed to pass the -S (safer mode) option to groff
> from the nroff.sh script.
NetBSD did the same, more or less -- that is, man.conf was changed to
use -S and the nroff script was hacked to permit the -S option to it.
.pm
