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Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.1010061138200.25305@faron.mitre.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 11:40:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Nagios format string issues
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Josh Bressers wrote:
> ----- "Oden Eriksson" <oeriksson@...driva.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Just checked the ones I fixed (in 2008/2009):
>>
>> $ rpm -qlp /SRPMS/contrib/release/*.rpm /SRPMS/main/release/*.rpm |
>> grep
>> format_not_a_string_literal_and_no_format_arguments | wc -l
>> 106
>>
>> So, at least 106 new CVE assignments there.
>>
>>
>
> It's probably not 106. Just becuase something isn't using format arguments
> doesn't mean it's a security flaw. Some subset of these probably could be
> considered security flaws though.
I agree. Closer inspection is necessary. Some of these variables could
be hard-coded constants. Sounds like there could be a lot, though.
- Steve
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