From: tomw@orac.engr.sgi.com (Tom Weinstein)
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 17:04:54 PDT
To: perry@piermont.com
Subject: Re: netscape bug
Message-ID: <199509230003.RAA06024@orac.engr.sgi.com>
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In article <DFALB4.A5u@sgi.sgi.com>, "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:

> I can tell you in general terms -- I don't write MIPS assembler
> myself. However, I will point out to you that you use an ancient
> Sendmail, and that it uses syslog(3) on user produced data, and that
> syslog uses a static buffer. Trick sendmail into logging something
> very big, and you can do what you like. The 8lgm people wrote a demo
> for Sparc as a proof of concept.

Hmm, after having looked at the syslogd code, it looks like this
particular bug has been fixed for at least several years.  However,
there sure are a hell of a lot of fixed size buffers being alocated off
the stack and some of them are being used in unsafe ways.

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