bin/64150: [PATCH] ls(1) coredumps when started via execve(2) with no argv.

[Marc Olzheim]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 01:06:57PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> And the fact that optind is initially set to 1.  I wonder what
> could be the implications for setuid programs.  There could be
> quite unpredictable results, as the "argv" pointer is incorrectly
> advanced in this case, and at least several setuid programs that
> I've glanced at are vulnerable to this attack.

See also: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=33738

Marc