Interesting (?) bug

[Chris Anley <chris () ngssoftware com>]

This:

http://www.ngssoftware.com/advisories/high-risk-vulnerability-in-mac-os-x/

...is a fairly straightforward format string bug, of the type that we've
all been saying for a few years is amenable to automated detection.

I found this one manually. Anyone have any comment on why it wasn't
reported by anyone using an automated method?

It's not unrelated to this (from April 2005):

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?type=vulnerabilities&id=240

In fact, it appears to have been 'revealed' by the fix to this issue in
2005. So I guess maybe I just reviewed vpnd at a propitious time? Then
again, 2 years is a while, right?

Cheers,

     -chris.

(apologies for sig)

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