[33983] in bugtraq
Re: Calife heap corrupt / potential local root exploit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ollivier Robert)
Fri Feb 27 16:10:50 2004
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 21:18:08 +0100
From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To: Carson Gaspar <carson+bugtraq@taltos.org>
Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
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According to Carson Gaspar:
> This is why you shouldn't make such assumptions. Never assume someone else
> validated your input. If you want to write secure code, assume every
That's why I just released 2.8.6 which correct this.
I'm thankful of the problem but I'd rather been informed before it goes in the
wild.
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