full-disclosure - FAKE: RedHat: Buffer Overflow in "ls" and "mkdir"

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From: alf1num3rik at yahoo.com (Stephen Jimson)
Subject: FAKE: RedHat: Buffer Overflow in "ls" and "mkdir"

<snip from the ISC's SANS>
The k-otik folks have an analysis of the bad things
that might happen if you follow the instructions in
the fake RedHat advisory that was reported in
yesterday's diary:

http://www.k-otik.com/news/FakeRedhatPatchAnalysis.txt

<snip>

the source code is also there

Steph


--- Brett Campbell <brett@...tom-tech.net> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 06:18:41PM -0700, Andrew
> Farmer wrote:
> <snip> 
> > I did a quickie analysis of the program (which is
> basically just 
> > distributed as source!).
> <snip>
> 
> when did you get a hold of the tarball? they must've
> yanked the record
> for www.fedora-redhat.com ... it can't be resolved
> in any way.
> 
> pretty interesting (and pathetic) anyways, nice
> detective work.
> 
> -- 
> [ Brett R. Campbell ]
>  -> Configuration Management / Systems
> Administration
>  -> Collaborative Agent Design Research Center
>  -> California Polytechnic State University, SLO, CA
> 


		
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