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

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 09:30:27PM +0000, Nate Eldredge wrote:
> 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.

void init_dialog(void)
{

  if (issetugid()) {
        errx(1, "libdialog is unsafe to use in setugid applications");
  }

Kris
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