Re: Possible bufferoverflow condition in lpr, xterm and xload

[nimrood () tester randomc com (*Unknown*)]

>     I'm running XFree86 3.1.2E on a FreeBSD 2.2-960801-SNAP system...
> ``xterm -display `perl -e "print 'abcde' x 1000, ':0';"`'' causes a
> segfault (but doesn't drop a core).

I am running XFree86 as well on a Linux 2.0.7 (redhat) system.

xterm -display `perl -e "print 'a' x 2000"` caused xterm to segfault with
no core drop (notice I left off the :0 and it segfaulted). I've tried to
gain a root shell, but with no success so far.