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,...

re, suidperl; more

hi, yes, i hoped to announce this bug to the perl-developers before it came public; but i think they read BQ ... Michal ... : So far, there are more security-releated apps which use /bin/mail for logging Once I was also fallen into thinking that it can be secure, until Dave Dittrich pointed that ...

Linux news 30.04.00

Linux 2.3.99-pre6 Вышло новое ядро Linux из "нестабильной" серии: Linux 2.3.99-pre6. Подробнее: http://linuxtoday.com/stories/20829.html Kernel traffic 64 В новой версии обзора списка рассылки ядра можно узнать интересные подробности о: - дискуссии о DevFS - ошибках ioctl - проблемах с асинхронны...