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Re: Format strings: bug #1: BSD-lpr

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kris Kennaway)
Wed Sep 27 04:44:56 2000

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Date:         Tue, 26 Sep 2000 00:02:48 -0700
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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FREEBSD.ORG>
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On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Chris Evans wrote:

> OpenBSD ship BSD-lpr. Not only have they already fixed this in their CVS,
> but they also offer web indexed CVS. They caught it independently as part
> of their "format strings" audit.
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/lpr/lpd/printjob.c?r1=1.19&r2=1.20

It seems FreeBSD fixed this one back in 1997:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/lpr/lpd/printjob.c.diff?r1=1.17&r2=1.18

(I was worried for a second there when I didnt remember catching this one
in our recent audit sweep ;-)

Kris

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