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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:22:26 +0100
From: Tomas Hoger <thoger@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: taviso@....lonestar.org, coley@...re.org
Subject: Re: CVE request: lynx (old) .mailcap handling flaw
Hi Tavis!
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:45:57 +0000 Tavis Ormandy
<taviso@....lonestar.org> wrote:
> Well obviously. The attack would be convincing someone to debug an
> application with a testcase provided in a tarball
Correct, I should have listed that before as separate case for gdb /
valgrind. But is there any good way to protect against this without
crippling this feature completely?
> or to debug something in a specific directory.
That should be covered by previously mentioned 2).
> If you just dumped one in /tmp on a system I use and waited a few
> weeks, there's a strong possibility you would pwn me.
... looks like I should check whether sdf still offers free shell
accounts ;).
> Of course, guess who reported that ;-) (me).
Correct, again... CVE-2005-1705
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88398
Note to self: Do more research before trying to teach old dog ^W^W
Tavis some new ^W really really old tricks... ;)
I'll shut up now...
--
Tomas Hoger / Red Hat Security Response Team
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