Re: In regard to CVE-2014-7169 CVE-2014-6271

2014-09-27 Thread Sam Liddicott
Many of the programs that inject environment variables could rightly sanitise their data. It may provide relief for system builders that provide updated busybox but not updated bash. Or safety where stupid use of eval is made in scripts, or careless use of system/popen is made in programs. To

increase watchdog's priority

2014-09-27 Thread Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
Hello, I've noticed that in several cases when my router was busy, watchdog forced a reboot on the system. That patch increases the priority of the watchdog compared to other processes. regards, Nikos From 58b001ee3a728cccf66ec0b8ae3d29d74494d93b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nikos

Re: In regard to CVE-2014-7169 CVE-2014-6271

2014-09-27 Thread Ralf Friedl
Sean Mathews wrote: In regard to CVE-2014-7169 CVE-2014-6271 looking at busybox-1.22.1/networking/udhcp/dhcpc.c line 403 fill_envp() it seems as if it would be trivial to mess with bootfile and inject a packet that has garbage in the bootfile and exploit this vulnerability. We should keep in

Re: [RFC] malloced getpw/grxxx functions for bb

2014-09-27 Thread tito
On Wednesday 24 September 2014 23:02:55 tito wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2014 16:32:01 tito wrote: Hi, One more fix of a return value. Ciao, Tito Hi, more return value and errno fixes. Ciao, Tito Hi, make the tokenize function more robust. Ciao, Tito /* vi: set sw=4

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Fix ntpd to not poll frequently

2014-09-27 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Miroslav Lichvar mlich...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 06:52:32PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Denys Vlasenko How about this patch? * on step, poll interval drops to 8.5 mins instead of 32 seconds Ok, that's an