Re: Can anyone verify a core dump on /sbin/mingetty - FOLLOW UP - Getty also dumping core

From: Przemyslaw Frasunek (venglinat_private)
Date: Mon Dec 03 2001 - 12:23:06 PST

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    On Monday 03 December 2001 21:07, Scott Mackenzie wrote:
> This problem is positive in the following systems:
> * note there could and probably are more but I've only had word of the
> following systems being tested

What's the point of this overflow? Getty isn't suid and init doesn't call it 
with user-controlable arguments. Mgetty on FreeBSD even isn't 
world-executable:

-rwx------  1 root  wheel  94732 18 Sty  2001 /usr/local/sbin/mgetty

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