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Re: libresolv+ bug

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Mitchell)
Sun Aug 18 23:18:08 1996

Date: 	Sun, 18 Aug 1996 22:34:29 -0400
Reply-To: Bugtraq List <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
From: Brian Mitchell <brian@saturn.net>
X-To:         Nelson Murilo <nelson@PANGEIA.COM.BR>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
In-Reply-To:  <Pine.LNX.3.93.960818171959.3677D-100000@acme.pangeia.com.br>

On Sun, 18 Aug 1996, Nelson Murilo wrote:

> Hi my solution is very hard, i'm deleted getenv() options from
> gethsnmad.c in libc-5.3.12 for Linux.
> Possible not elegant, but funcionality :)

The better solution is probably to do things such as ld.so does, and only
remove the variables if it is a suid or sgid program, although removing
support for them totally works too :).


Brian Mitchell                                          brian@saturn.net
"I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell"
- H. Truman

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