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Re: Buffer overflows in Minicom 1.80.1

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (M.C.Mar)
Wed Sep 2 11:30:41 1998

Date: 	Wed, 2 Sep 1998 16:51:26 +0200
Reply-To: "M.C.Mar" <emsi@it.com.pl>
From: "M.C.Mar" <woloszyn@IT.PL>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To:  <m0zDZQX-000aPKC@the-village.bc.nu>

On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

> > I've tested 1.75 which comes with RH5.0, and it also crashes when
> > TERM='aaaa....aaa'. Note that it seems to be only setgid uucp, but it's
> > vulnerable.
>
> And an update was issued ages ago. This whole minicom thread is recycling
> old bugs
>
In Slackware 3.5 distribution minicom is setuid root and
is STILL VULNERABLE, but not easily. ;)

RegardZ,
Kil3r

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