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Re: xmalloc buffer overflow?


From: "Robert Freeman" <freem100 () chapman edu>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 00:08:55 -0800

What tripped me up was that I su'd from a root-level account named other
than root. Working late at night it didn't occur to me that the error was
not being trapped. It seems silly in retrospect, but thanks [to all] for
checking it out.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Gonzalez Albert" <albert.gonzalez () siemens com>
To: "'Robert Freeman'" <freem100 () chapman edu>; <vuln-dev () security-focus com>
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 11:05 AM
Subject: RE: xmalloc buffer overflow?


Did you su to the nobody user from the root account?


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