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Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.62.0507011459120.26457@angelic.cynic.net> Date: Fri Jul 1 12:00:24 2005 From: cjs at cynic.net (Curt Sampson) Subject: Re: Publishing exploit code - what is it good for Interesting, becuase this just hit me the other day. Wearing my sysadmin hat, I woke up one morning to find that the NetBSD package converters/xlreader had a vulnerability. Nobody seemed to have a patch for it, but looking at it, even with my rather limited level of C coding skill, I reckoned I could fix it. (Standard buffer overflow: replace sprintf with snprintf kinda thing.) So I did. Or at least, I think I did. I can't get my hands on a working exploit, so I don't feel truly comfortable that I did indeed fix the problem. Maybe to someone more familiar with C it would be proved fixed by inspection, but I don't feel that comfortable with it myself. I didn't really used to think that exploits were so useful until this. cjs -- Curt Sampson <cjs@...ic.net> +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.NetBSD.org Make up enjoying your city life...produced by BIC CAMERA
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