full-disclosure - format strings vulns in /bin/login and /usr/bin/passwd

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Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.2.20030126173729.04798050@pop3.direcway.com>
From: madsaxon at direcway.com (madsaxon)
Subject: format strings vulns in /bin/login and
  /usr/bin/passwd

 >There is also a few other on other programs but i thought these 2 would 
be most important since passwd >is suid and login could be exploited 
remotly. I am not very experianced in format strings any >help/commets 
would be great. Would these be able to get exploited?

>i'm not sure what utility you used to find those "vulns", but i think that 
>author should have his head examined, or perhaps you're just too ignorant 
>to know how to properly work it. there are *no* format string 
>vulnerabilities in the files you reported. the lack of a format specifier 
>does *not* implicate bad code. printf("you are dumb"); is perfectly legal ..

Ugh. Let me translate this into adult for you.

"No, I don't believe they are exploitable."

m5x