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Re: [krbdev.mit.edu #8671] minor bug in ksu

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tavis Ormandy via RT)
Tue Apr 24 13:39:06 2018

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No reason, just looking at the code for setuid root programs installed in
RHEL.

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Greg Hudson via RT <
rt-comment@krbdev.mit.edu> wrote:

> If argc is 0, ksu should crash with a null dereference at line 144
> where it does strlen() on argv[0].  I believe that happens with every
> program in the MIT krb5 tree, but we have received reports of argc == 0
> issues specifically for ksu twice this month, which seems odd.  Out of
> curiosity, can you explain how you arrived at this issue?
>

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