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Vulnerability Development: Re: BSD chfn bug

Re: BSD chfn bug

From: Przemyslaw Frasunek <venglin_at_FREEBSD.LUBLIN.PL>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 18:51:16 +0100

On 20-Dec-99 Pavol Luptak wrote:
> When you run chfn (chfn/chsh/chpass is the same binary on FreeBSD), temporary
> file in /etc/pw.???? will touch, external editor will be execute
> (env.variable $EDITOR) with uid of user running chfn. Edit your parameters,
> delete all characters on the last line in the editor (Other information:
> entry). After this,
> chfn will crash. No core dumped.

I can't reproduce it on 3.3-STABLE and 3.4-STABLE. Give more details about your
environment. 

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Received on Dec 22 1999
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