Re: SuSe / Debian man package format string vulnerability

[Tomasz Kuźniar]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 02:22:01PM -0000, Joao Gouveia wrote:
: The man package that ships with SuSe Linux ( at least versions 6.1 throught
: 7.0 ) has a format string vulnerability. Also debian 2.2r2 ( at least ), is
: confirmed to have the same problem.
:
: <quote>
: jroberto@spike:~ > man -l %x%x%x%x
: man: 4000bc7438049af00: No such file or directory
: </quote>

The same problem in most (all?) distributions is with m4 - GNU macro
processor code, when trying use -G option:

mezon@beata:~$ m4 -G %x%x%x%x
m4: 40012a48380491e00: No such file or directory

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