Vulnerability Development: Re: Segfault in login on debian potatoR2

["Allen J. Newton" <anewton () ALTURIA FLEET ORG>]

BORBELY Zoltan wrote:
> Date:         Sat, 10 Mar 2001 11:02:42 +0100
> Subject:      Re: Segfault in login on debian potatoR2
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 04:04:11PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> > I don't know if this could be exploited is any way, but here's something
> > that I've seen.  This is on x86 on two machines and a ppc g3.
> >
> > #su
> > #login
> > login:
> > ^D
> > Segmentation fault
> >
> > Maybe you guys can check this more.
> I've checked it in RedHat Linux 7.0/i386:
Yes, I had this problem with RH7.0 with all the updates until...

glibc-2.2-12.rpm fixes this.  I saw on another list that this was a known (but
not terribly WELL known) problem with glibc < 2.2-12.

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