just to help complete the list of "ok"/"not ok" systems, neither the AIX 4.3.3-ML08 ftpd daemon nor the Mac OS X 10.1.1/Darwin 5.1 ftpd daemon appear to be vulnerable. At 5:46 PM +0100 11/29/01, Junius, Martin wrote: > > >I just did some tests with RedHat 7.2, glibc-2.2.4-19, and ftpd-BSD-0.3.2. >"ls ~{" makes the ftpd process die in glibc�s glob(pattern="~{", ...) >function with a SEGV. Beside that ftpd-BSD uses globfree() to release >the memory. So as long as glibc's glob() is safe, ftpd-BSD *should* >be safe against this exploit. > >On RedHat 6.2, glibc-2.1.3-22, "ls ~{" simply returns "No such file >or directory". > >Martin -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Sandor W. Sklar - Unix Systems Administrator - Stanford University ITSS Non impediti ratione cogitationis. <http://whippet.stanford.edu/~ssklar/> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=