Re: Potential vulnerabilities in BASH 4.3

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/11/14, 3:07 PM, Hádrian R wrote:
> Hi, I'm Hádrien Romero Soria - @Kaiwaiata​​, I am a 16 year old boy,
> passionate about computer security, since more than 8h searching and
> finding various possible vulnerabilities in source code of bash..
> I will tell you one vulnerability now, if they treat me well I will tell
> the other..
> 
> foolish or important things?
> 
> unsafe use of *strcpy():*
> 
> bash-4.3.tar\bash-4.3\lib\sh\unicode.c:
> *line 87: *strcpy (charsetbuf, locale);

Thanks for the report.  This is a potential vulnerability if the value of
the LC_CTYPE variable is longer than 40 characters.

Chet

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