FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-09:16.rtld

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Fri Dec 4 10:21:58 UTC 2009


Jamie Landeg Jones <jamie at bishopston.net> writes:
> However, I would certainly apply the patch anyway - basically, the old way
> was just blindly unsetting environment variables and blindly assuming the
> unsetting worked.

It won't build.

> Just in case there is some other way of exploiting the fact that rtld.c didn't
> check whether unsetenv was successful (which I bet people are now looking for)
> I'd apply the patch to 6.3 and 6.4 also, just to be sure.

It won't build.

from <stdlib.h> in stable/6:

void     unsetenv(const char *);

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