Bug 18479 – Format string bug in RH5.2's talkd

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Bug 18479 - Format string bug in RH5.2's talkd

Summary:	Format string bug in RH5.2's talkd

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	talk (Show other bugs)
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Version:	5.2
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Phil Knirsch
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Reported:	2000-10-05 19:09 EDT by Chris Evans
Modified:	2015-03-04 20:08 EST (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2001-06-22 11:37:18 EDT
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Description Chris Evans 2000-10-05 19:09:52 EDT

NOTE!! Does _not_ affect RH6.0 or newer because of a netkit source change
Just a bug FYI, in case you're still supporting 5.2

See bogus use of fprintf() in announce.c: print_mesg(). "%s" is missing.
May be remotely exploitable.
If I had a RH5.2 machine I'd reseach this but.... :-)

See Bugtraq post here for someone who spotted this change in the OpenBSD
tree:
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/137482

Comment 1 Phil Knirsch 2001-08-23 05:58:21 EDT

Thanks for reporting, but 5.2 is now out of the supported systems.

Read ya, Phil

PS: I just took over our internal ownership of this package, so i can't tell you
why there hasn't been done a fix earlier. :)

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