Fixed a bug that could case a root exploit when the daemon is compiled

to do IDENT lookups and is logging to syslog. Bug discovered by CoKi,
<coki@nosystem.com.ar>, thanks a lot!
(http://www.nosystem.com.ar/advisories/advisory-11.txt)
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Alexander Barton 2005-02-03 09:26:42 +00:00
parent 07fe19889b
commit 8308c170db
2 changed files with 8 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
ngIRCd CVSHEAD
- Fixed a bug that could case a root exploit when the daemon is compiled
to do IDENT lookups and is logging to syslog. Bug discovered by CoKi,
<coki@nosystem.com.ar>, thanks a lot!
(http://www.nosystem.com.ar/advisories/advisory-11.txt)
- Code cleanups from Florian Westphal, <westphal@foo.fh-furtwangen.de>.
- Raised the maximum length of passwords to 20 characters.
- Fixed a memory leak when resizing the connection pool and realloc()
@ -28,7 +32,7 @@ ngIRCd CVSHEAD
should enable the system to write proper core files when not running with
root privileges ...
ngircd 0.8.2 (2005-01-26)
ngIRCd 0.8.2 (2005-01-26)
- Added doc/SSL.txt to distribution.
- Fixed a buffer overflow that could cause the daemon to crash. Bug found
@ -572,4 +576,4 @@ ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
--
$Id: ChangeLog,v 1.256 2005/02/03 09:11:43 alex Exp $
$Id: ChangeLog,v 1.257 2005/02/03 09:26:42 alex Exp $

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@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
#include "portab.h"
static char UNUSED id[] = "$Id: log.c,v 1.49 2005/01/20 00:12:23 alex Exp $";
static char UNUSED id[] = "$Id: log.c,v 1.50 2005/02/03 09:26:42 alex Exp $";
#include "imp.h"
#include <assert.h>
@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ va_dcl
fflush( stdout );
}
#ifdef SYSLOG
else syslog( Level, msg );
else syslog( Level, "%s", msg );
#endif
} /* Log_Resolver */