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Bugtraq: Sun's Loadmodule Patch

Sun's Loadmodule Patch

From: Neil Woods <neil_at_legless.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 00:37:52 +0100

Sun's loadmodule fix replaces the insecure call to system(3) with calls to
vfork(2) and execle(3) (apparently execle(3) is used in order to specify
a null environment).

This is effective measure to fix loadmodule, uname(2) is still the most
elegant fix which has been overlooked.

Cheers,

Neil

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Received on Oct 20 1995
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