Re: Voulnerability in 3.*-4.*

On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 05:23:06PM +0300, vvs_php@nsrd.npi.msu.su wrote: > > > On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Sascha Schumann wrote: > > > > char fn[]="/foo/foo/foo/blah"; > > Constant strings are by default not writable. Compile with > > -fwritable-strings, if that is the desired behaviour. > It makes no difference in our case, as I can see, compiling and running... It did not change the result in this case, but it changed the way you got there. Your example did not demonstrate the real bug, it simply demonstrated that writing into the text segment of a process does not work. But thanks anyway for discovering this bug and reporting it. -- Regards, Sascha Schumann Consultant