cvs commit: src/usr.bin/banner banner.c

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Wed Nov 22 21:59:13 UTC 2006


Maxim Konovalov wrote:
>   Modified files:
>     usr.bin/banner       banner.c 
>   Log:
>   o Check that -w width is not above maximum.  Use DWIDTH instead of
>   hardcoded constant.
>   
>   Reported by:    Gruzicki Wlodek on BugTraq
>   Obtained from:  NetBSD, OpenBSD
>   MFC after:      1 week

Security:	Possible privilege escalation, if you have a practice of
		going around and applying the suid bit randomly.

Colin Percival


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