gnu/45168: Buffer overflow in /usr/bin/dialog

[Nate Eldredge]

The following reply was made to PR gnu/45168; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Nate Eldredge <nge at cs.hmc.edu>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, saturnero at freesbie.org
Cc: daveb at optusnet.com.au, freebsd-current at cs.hmc.edu
Subject: Re: gnu/45168: Buffer overflow in /usr/bin/dialog
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:29:43 -0700 (PDT)

 libdialog appears to be brimming with bugs of this sort.  Lots of uses of 
 strcpy / strcat.  It probably needs a complete audit.  Ideally there 
 should be no MAX_LEN and everything dynamically allocated.  I hope to god 
 it is never run by anything with elevated privileges.
 
 -- 
 Nate Eldredge
 nge at cs.hmc.edu