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Re: m4 and format strings


From: "Samy Kamkar [CommPort5]" <CommPort5 () LucidX com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 08:58:10 -0700

Also, testing on my machine (fbsd) I just get:
m4: %x,%x,%x,%x,%x,%x,%x: No such file or directory
Also checked gm4 on my fbsd machine and it is vuln, but is anyone aware
of any other programs that depend on m4/gm4?  I don't know of any other
ways something like this could be exploited..

bash$ ls -l `which m4`
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  16528 Oct  9  2000 /usr/bin/m4
bash$ ls -l `which gm4`
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  78724 Apr 17  2000 /usr/local/bin/gm4
bash$ m4 %x,%x,%x,%x,%x,%x,%x
m4: %x,%x,%x,%x,%x,%x,%x: No such file or directory
bash$ gm4 --version
GNU m4 1.4
bash$ gm4 %x,%x,%x,%x,%x,%x,%x
gm4: 8049495,2,bfbffc40,bfbffc4c,28070100,bfbffc38,2805d329: No such
file or directory

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