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Bugtraq archives for 2nd quarter (Apr-Jun) 1998: Re: Bug#22321: Minicom buffer overflow patch --oops

Re: Bug#22321: Minicom buffer overflow patch --oops

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquelsCISTRON.NL)
Tue, 12 May 1998 09:15:15 +0200 

According to Stephen Carpenter:
> Sorry about this....I screwed up....
> I made a slight typo....well not so slight...
> yes its my own fault for not being more careful...
> this is the revised pacth that should actually work at the end of this
> message

Actually, this patch is incomplete. There are at least 10 other places in
minicom that have the exact same problem (buffer overflow). A patch has
already been sent to the upstream maintainer. There should be a minicom-1.82
soon.

BTW 80% of all software has the same problem - it really isn't a problem...
unless it's a setuid program.

Mike.
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