Fwd: [PATCH] Don't allow attackers to inject arbitrary data into stack through LD_DEBUG

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Mon Aug 10 09:11:00 GMT 2015


Alex <alexinbeijing@gmail.com> writes:

> Andreas, I'm a bit slow here so please help me out: why is the copy
> needed *even if* printf("%s", ...) is used?

Not "even if", but "because".  You need to cut off the string before the
separator.

Andreas.

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