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From: Rumen Yotov <rumen_yotov@×××.bg>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] app_gip_stack_smashing_attack_bug?
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 20:18:50
Message-Id: 1088194722.3174.15.camel@mymach.qrypto.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] app_gip_stack_smashing_attack_bug? by pageexec@freemail.hu
1 Hi,
2 On пт, 2004-06-25 at 22:53, pageexec@××××××××.hu wrote:
3 > > Saw an app called gip (net-misc/gip) and emerged it.
4 > > Description: a nice GNOME GUI for making IP address based calculations.
5 > > But when tring to run it was stopped by PaX, see:
6 > > ...CUT...
7 > > $gip
8 > > gip: stack smashing attack in function short int ipv4_ip2integer(const
9 > > char*, unsigned int*)()
10 >
11 > it's not PaX but ssp (stach smashing protector).
12 right my fault
13 >
14 > > Maybe it's a bug or something else.
15 > > Should i file a bug on it.
16 >
17 > it's a bug and you should file a bug, preferably upstream. the problem
18 > is that the call to regexp_match_grab() will fill in the matches array,
19 > except it's too small because there's no room for the NULL terminator
20 > (the regexp will match the 4 octets of the IP address, so the array
21 > should have 4+1 elements, not 4).
22 There is already a BUG-55055 about gip as ebuild, should i post it there
23 or as new bug (don't understand the term 'upstream', sorry)
24 Rumen
25
26 >
27 > --
28 > gentoo-hardened@g.o mailing list
29 >

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