Re: libresolv+ bug

[felicity () kluge net (Theo Van Dinter)]

In response to the libresolv+ hole ...  I'm sure there's a better/more
encompassing/cleaner method of fixing it, but here's my patch for ping (I
have the Netkit-B-0.07A source for ping (linux)...  It just switches the
effective uid to nobody (default 65534) around a certain gethostbyname ...
This fixed the problem as far as I can tell on my system...


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> int kluge;
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>               kluge=geteuid();
>               seteuid(65534);
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>               seteuid(kluge);

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