Bug 17349

Summary: Possibility for formatchar errors in syslog call
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Jarno Huuskonen <jarno.huuskonen>
Component: mingettyAssignee: Florian La Roche <laroche>
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Description Jarno Huuskonen 2000-09-08 09:31:51 UTC 
mingetty.c:111 calls syslog (LOG_ERR, buf);

This should be syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s", buf);

To the best of my knowledge this can't be abused, but why not change it
anyway.

-Jarno

PS. Also a few lines earlier there's a call to vsprintf instead of 
    vsnprintf
Comment 1 Florian La Roche 2001-04-06 20:36:20 UTC 
fixed in mingetty-0.9.4-16