full-disclosure - ltrace bug

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0310080154320.32200@twin.jikos.cz>
From: jikos at jikos.cz (Jirka Kosina)
Subject: ltrace bug

On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Abhisek Datta wrote:

> A heap based buffer overrun bug is identified in ltrace 'Library Call
> Tracer' utility version 0.3.10-12 which allows execution of arbitrarty
> code with root privilage by corrupting the heap.

I don't see any way how this bug could allow execution of code with root
privileges, as far as ltrace is not suid root.

-- 
JiKos.