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Re: Gaim festival plugin exploit
From: merlyn () stonehenge com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Date: 20 Oct 2003 11:09:50 -0700
"HCTITS" == HCTITS Security Division <security () humancentrictech com> writes:
HCTITS> DUH... would help if I attached my attachment. Is this is repeat? I'm going to repeat myself then. YOUR FIX DOES NOT HELP. Please use my posted fix.
system("echo \"$string\" | /usr/bin/festival --tts");
Replace this with open FEST, "|/usr/bin/festival --tts"; print FEST $string, "\n"; close FEST; No shells involved. Only DOS exploits and maybe the usual C-language overflows in festival itself. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn () stonehenge com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!
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