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Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 18:50:39 -0800
From: Jonathan Smith <smithj@...ethemallocs.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: mtr

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Robert Buchholz wrote
| Secunia suggests [1] that 0.73 contains a fix. Did you find any
indication
| to that? The advisory mentions 0.72 as vulnerable, but it is also dated
| February 28. The last mtr was released on April 7, but it seems to me all
| changes are unrelated.

The issue was an insecure use of sprintf in split_redraw(). In 0.73,
uptream changed this to use snprintf, thus fixing the issue.

	smithj

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