[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] .gdbinit

Víctor Paesa wzrlpy
Thu Apr 5 01:06:15 CEST 2007


Hi,
> Rich Felker writes:
>  > On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 06:09:01PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>  > > Hi
>  > >
>  > > On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 04:22:17PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
>  > > > Rich Felker wrote:
>  > > > > On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 08:51:35AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>  > > > >> On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:57:19PM -0400, Marc Hoffman wrote:
>  > > > >>> [ATTACHMENT ~/gdb.p0, text/x-patch]
>  > > > >> Hmmmm.
>  > > > >
>  > > > > For what it's worth, I find it really annoying when programs
> include a
>  > > > > .gdbinit file. It rarely works with all versions of gdb and
> results in
>  > > > > errors that make gdb unusable until I rm it.. :)
>  > > >
>  > > > better put it in the website or in the documentation dir (with also
>  > > > maybe some valgrind conf files)
>  > >
>  > > seconded
>  >
>  > i agree, this is the best of both worlds.
>  > btw .gdbinit is actually likely a vuln. i bet you could trick local
>  > users into running gdb from a public dir or dir you own without them
>  > realizing that it would run script from .gdbinit.... since no one even
>  > seems to know it exists.
>  >
>
> Not to be ignorant but whats vuln?

Sounds like a shorthand for vuln-erability.
Maybe he is trying to avoid writing the full word, so that black-hat people
can't search for it in the archives?

Regards,
V?ctor




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