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To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
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Subject: Re: [secure@FREEBSD.LUBLIN.PL: FreeBSD (and other BSDs?) local root explot] 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 27 Aug 1999 17:51:17 +0200."
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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 10:00:21 -0600
From: "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>

In message <19990827175117.A6650@antioche.lip6.fr>
	so spake Manuel Bouyer (bouyer):

> I've merged your patch in NetBSD, and unfortunably it doesn't fix the core
> dump. But yes, it core dumps in fts_read(). I may have messed up something
> (the patch didn't apply cleany) but I didn't find what. I won't play more wit
> h
> this today, someone else should try to have a look at this.

Sorry to hear that.  It would be interesting to see if linking
find with the OpenBSD-current fts.c fixes things.  If not, the
bug must lie elsewhere and I'd love to find & fix it :-)

ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/src/lib/libc/gen/fts.c

 - todd