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Re: /dev/tcp, and a LD_LIBRARY_PATH question.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James R. Ault)
Tue Dec 6 15:45:36 1994

To: bugtraq@fc.net
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 1994 12:23:08 EST
From: "James R. Ault" <ault@cs.albany.edu>


> Its a good idea to write a routine to scrub *ALL* LD_* environment
> varibles first thing in any SUID program.  ESPECIALLY any that
> exec's another program with any kind of privilege.

The LD_* variables don't affect statically linked binaries, do they?

Jim Ault, CS Sysadmin, SUNY Albany, NY 12222 USA  ault@cs.albany.edu   <><

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