And as Chris Evans pointed out on linux-security, libncurses on RedHat is
built with -DPURE_TERMINFO, which keeps it from using the buggy buffer
code in libtermcap.
-Tymm
On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Michal Zalewski wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Michal Zalewski wrote:
>
> > [...] most of terminfo-based programs will accept TERM variable set to
> > eg. '../../../tmp/x'. All we have to do is to provide 'our own termcap
> > file', set TERM, then execute vunerable program w/terminfo support. In
> > fact, in.telnetd daemon shipped eg. with RH 6.0 /as well as with many
> > other recent distributions based on terminfo entries/, is vunerable...
>
> Oh, haven't said, for clearance... I'm talking about terminfo support and
> tgetent() function implemented in libncurses, which is buggy as well,
> while ncurses allows '../' tricks.
>
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