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Bug 8317

Summary:	lack of bounds checking in man
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	lumpy_ <dynamo>
Component:	man	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.1	Keywords:	Security
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Description lumpy_ 2000-01-10 04:18:59 UTC

lame buffer overflow exists with the -P command line
argument for the man program, which is apparently
installed set-gid "man".

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-01-18 13:11:59 UTC

Please be a bit more specific - I don't see an overflow there.
-P uses my_strdup, which allocates exactly as much space as it needs.
Feel free to re-open this bug if you thing I'm wrong.