Re: [Linux] glibc 2.1.x / wu-ftpd <=2.5 / BeroFTPD / lynx / vlock

From: Norbert Warmuth (nwarmuthat_private)
Date: Sun Aug 29 1999 - 23:11:36 PDT

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    Michal Zalewski writes:
    > ------------------
    > mc, ftp:// and $()
    > ------------------
    >
    > Compromise: remote/local user's privledges
    >
    > Midnight Commander ftp client has an overflow while reading server
    > responses - long enough message will result in beautiful overflow. Enjoy.
    
    An off-by-one error, hardly to exploit especially since the value written
    is always '\0'.
    
    
    > Also, mc seems to have serious problems with directories containing shell
    > commands enclosed in $(...) construction. Bad.
    
    What are you talking about? Please send details to mc-bugsat_private
    
    If you refer to uncompressing gzip'd files this bug was fixed on
    18.08.99 (release 4.5.38).
    
    Regards,
    Norbert
    



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