Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : libsafe (MDKSA-2002:026)

Wojciech Purczynski discovered that format string protection in libsafe can be easily bypassed by using flag characters that are implemented in glibc but are not implemented in libsafe. It was also discovered that printf function wrappers incorrectly parse argument indexing in format strings,...

CVE-2002-0175

The CVE-2002-0175 issue concerns libsafe 2.0-11 and earlier, where format-string protection can be bypassed by using certain characters ("'" and "I") that are implemented in glibc but not in libsafe. The connected Mandrake advisory (MDKSA-2002:026) states that this bypass arises from how printf w...