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Message-Id: <199908271813.LAA04404@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
Cc: "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>, tech-security@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: [secure@FREEBSD.LUBLIN.PL: FreeBSD (and other BSDs?) local root explot] 
Reply-To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 11:13:41 -0700

On Fri, 27 Aug 1999 17:51:17 +0200 
 Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> wrote:

 > 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 with
 > this today, someone else should try to have a look at this.

Please note that Charles Hannum has hacked on the NetBSD fts(3) very
recently (like yesterday), so make sure you're looking at the correct
NetBSD code base.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>