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Re: Vi buffer overflow


From: Jose Nazario <jose () biocserver BIOC cwru edu>
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 22:31:18 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, KF wrote:

Not sure how big of a deal either of these are due to the fact that
they are not suid... any thoughts?

can you force a filename that is arbitrarily input from a user to someone
with higher or other privilidges? can you target this? that would make in
interesting.

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