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Subject: glibc env. vars. (again)
From: Chris Evans (chrisferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Wed May 24 2000 - 15:18:52 CDT


Hi,

AFAICT, glibc will happily accept the env. var. MALLOC_CHECK_ for suid
programs (it doesn't use secure_getenv). Can anyone think of any problems
with this.

In fact glibc probably needs a re-audit of which env. vars. it trusts.

Cheers
Chris