[18996] in bugtraq
Re: m4 format string vulnerability [was: Re: SuSe / Debian man
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ivo van Poorten)
Sun Feb 4 23:49:41 2001
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Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 04:05:54 +0000
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From: Ivo van Poorten <ipoorten@CS.VU.NL>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
In-Reply-To: <20010203155430.A3312@kerouac.mg.de>
On Saturday 03 February 2001 14:54, Mike Gerber wrote:
> confirmed for red hat linux 7.0:
>
> [kerouac:mg:~]m4 -G %x
> m4: 80499d9: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
> [kerouac:mg:~]cat /etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Linux release 7.0 (Guinness)
> [kerouac:mg:~]rpm -q m4
> m4-1.4.1-3
Same here:
[ivo@vanity ~]$ m4 -G %x
m4: 80497fb: No such file or directory
[ivo@vanity ~]$ rpm -q m4
m4-1.4-17mdk
[ivo@vanity ~]$ cat /etc/mandrake-release
Linux Mandrake release 7.2 (Odyssey) for i586
--Ivo
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