Re: traceroute-4.4BSD (slack) heap overflow

[Dale Thatcher <dale () 88 NET>]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:54:41AM +0100, Olaf Kirch wrote:
>  c.   The RESOLV_HOST_CONF variable is *not* used to specifiy
>       a replacment for /etc/hosts, but for /etc/host.conf, which
>       configures the resolver. Apart from that, it's been quite a
>       while since the resolver library honored this variable in
>       setuid programs.

I just tried this on Debian unstable (libc 2.2-9) and read my /etc/shadow

Whoops...

- Dale