Vulnerability Development: Re: Possible syslogd DoS ?

[H D Moore <hdm () secureaustin com>]

Are you sure tha /dev/urandom will never return a string with %[snpfdn] etc? 
Your exploit may be exploitable ;)

On Friday 05 October 2001 12:19 am, Petr Baudis wrote:
>   for(;;)
>   {
>     fgets(buffer, sizeof(buffer), fp);
>     syslog(0, buffer);
>   }
Fix: syslog(0, "%s", buffer);

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