[6749] in bugtraq
Re: Bug#22321: Minicom buffer overflow patch --oops
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Tue May 12 13:43:44 1998
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 09:15:15 +0200
Reply-To: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@CISTRON.NL>
From: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@CISTRON.NL>
X-To: Stephen Carpenter <sjc@delphi.com>, 22321@bugs.debian.org
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <355757B9.A2F3DDB9@delphi.com>; from Stephen Carpenter on Mon,
May 11, 1998 at 03:55:37PM -0400
According to Stephen Carpenter:
> Sorry about this....I screwed up....
> I made a slight typo....well not so slight...
> yes its my own fault for not being more careful...
> this is the revised pacth that should actually work at the end of this
> message
Actually, this patch is incomplete. There are at least 10 other places in
minicom that have the exact same problem (buffer overflow). A patch has
already been sent to the upstream maintainer. There should be a minicom-1.82
soon.
BTW 80% of all software has the same problem - it really isn't a problem...
unless it's a setuid program.
Mike.
--
Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time,
miquels@cistron.nl | eventually eliminating it.
