Re: RH7.0: man local gid 15 (man) exploit

[PJ <briareos () otherlands net>]

FYI, still doesn't work on Slackware 7.1

$ man -S : blah
No manual entry for blah
$

$ man -S 
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
 blah
blah: nothing appropriate
$

I have tried the other command to try to get man to segfault with a
supplied arguement, still nothing.  

$ man -S `perl -e 'print ":" x 100'` blah
No manual entry for blah
$

On Wed, 16 May 2001, Stephen Shirley wrote:

> Hi,
>       The info posted to get man to seg fault is slightly incorrect. You
> need to supply some text as the name of a man page - otherwise man will
> reject all input. The number of :'s is irrelevat too - one is enough.
>
> man -S : blah
> will cause a seg fault. This has been confirmed on debian 2.2 woody, and I
> submitted a patch to fix it. The new version is in unstable - ver
> 2.3.18-2. From the changelog of 2.3.18-2:
>
>   * man would segfault if the argument to -S contained only colons, and
>     incidentally treated an empty argument to -S wrongly. Both cases now
>     use the standard list of sections instead (thanks, Colin Phipps and
>     Stephen Shirley; closes: #97553, #97566).
>
> Steve
> -- 
> "My mom had Windows at work and it hurt her eyes real bad"

PJ

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