Bug#916506: closed by Chris Hofstaedtler (Re: /usr/bin/logger: /usr/bin/logger allows anyone to write to /var/log/syslog)

2020-05-02 Thread Frank Mori Hess
> /var/log/syslog > As explained by Andreas, this is not a bug in util-linux. > > Thanks, > Chris > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Frank Mori Hess > To: Debian Bug Tracking System > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 02:38:07 -0500 > Subje

Bug#916506: /usr/bin/logger: /usr/bin/logger allows anyone to write to /var/log/syslog

2019-03-19 Thread Frank Mori Hess
On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 5:09 AM Andreas Henriksson wrote: > > The logger tool has no special privilegies. It's just a small tool > that helps you send messages to your syslog daemon. You could equally > well do this using for example netcat to send syslog messages over the > network, etc. I'm not

Bug#916506: /usr/bin/logger: /usr/bin/logger allows anyone to write to /var/log/syslog

2018-12-14 Thread Frank Mori Hess
Package: bsdutils Version: 1:2.29.2-1+deb9u1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/logger Dear Maintainer, I was surprised to find that I can write anything I want to /var/log/syslog using the /usr/bin/logger program as a non-root user. My user account has no permissions on /var/log/syslog, it can't ev

Bug#534722: closed by Paul Brossier (Re: Bug#534722:)

2009-10-30 Thread Frank Mori Hess
On Friday 30 October 2009, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Steven G. Johnson wrote: > >> Whether or not such aliasing is safe is entirely dependent on > >> implementation-defined behavior, the standard leaves it undefined. > > > > This is not true.  Matteo already quoted the portion of the C st

Bug#534722: libfftw3-dev: aliasing violations due to complex.h inclusion

2009-10-10 Thread Frank Mori Hess
On Friday 09 October 2009, Matteo Frigo wrote: > Your bug report implies that calling fftw from a program that > #include's causes a violation of the aliasing rules, > because fftw is compiled with fftw_complex = double [2] and the > program is compiled with fftw_complex = double _Complex. I cont

Bug#534722: libfftw3-dev: aliasing violations due to complex.h inclusion

2009-10-05 Thread Frank Mori Hess
On Monday 28 September 2009, Frank Mori Hess wrote: > The > strict aliasing rules allow compilers to make optimizations that assume > pointers to different types will not access the same memory. I'll try > to produce a test program soon. Attached is an example program tha

Bug#534722: libfftw3-dev: aliasing violations due to complex.h inclusion

2009-09-28 Thread Frank Mori Hess
On Monday 28 September 2009, Matteo Frigo wrote: > > Frank Hess wrote: > > > This means if a user doesn't include fftw3.h first, before any > > > possible inclusion of complex.h, then his code may be using a > > > different ABI than that of the libfftw3.so provided by debian. > > This is false. [N

Bug#455907: errors since libnss-ldap update (dsa-1430)

2007-12-12 Thread Frank Mori Hess
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had the same problems. The package installation set the permissions on /etc/libnss-ldap.conf to 600. Making the file readable by everyone fixed it. - -- Frank -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHX/bc5vihyNWu

Bug#406340: bug fixed

2007-04-18 Thread Frank Mori Hess
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is just to verify that this bug doesn't exist in etch, using Package: gnupg-agent Version: 2.0.0-5.2 Using etch, I am now able to shutdown/unmount my autofs mounted home directory while gpg-agent is still running. It appears gpg-agent no longe