Re: Interim solution for ps

[kirby () COSMIC UGA EDU (Steven Kirby)]

> Here's a generic wrapper I've written that you can use as an interim
> solution for wrapping /usr/bin/ps and /usr/ucb/ps.  (/usr/ucb/ps looks
> to be similarly vulnerable.)  The code is fairly well documented IMHO,
> and should be adaptable enough to wrap just about any program.

I'll have to look at this more closely in the morning, but I suspect you may
have reinvented the wheel.  (Though, at first glance, it looks like a *really*
nice wheel! :-))

The folks at AUSCERT released a generic wrapper program to handle buffer
overflow problems a while back.  It's available from:

       ftp://ftp.auscert.org.au/pub/auscert/tools/overflow_wrapper.c

It's been the answer to more than one advisory that began "Due to insufficient
bounds checking... ").

--steve

          It's not what you know, but what you think of in time.

        Steven Kirby    University of Georgia   kirby () cosmic uga edu