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Re: $HOME buffer overflow in SunOS 5.8 x86
From: Kris Kennaway <kris () obsecurity org>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 09:44:13 -0700
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 01:54:11PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
digital> uname -a OSF1 digital V4.0 564.32 alpha digital> setenv HOME `perl -e 'print "a"x1100'` Received disconnect: Command terminated on signal 6.
There was a bug in tcsh which did this, which I reported about 6 months ago and was fixed by Christos. Not a security vulnerability, of course, unless your shell is already setugid ;-) Kris
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- $HOME buffer overflow in SunOS 5.8 x86 Georgi Guninski (Jun 04)
- Re: $HOME buffer overflow in SunOS 5.8 x86 Juergen P. Meier (Jun 05)
- Re: $HOME buffer overflow in SunOS 5.8 x86 Gunnar Wolf (Jun 05)
- Re: $HOME buffer overflow in SunOS 5.8 x86 Tohru Watanabe (Jun 05)
- Re: $HOME buffer overflow in SunOS 5.8 x86 Patrick Finch (Jun 05)
- Re: $HOME buffer overflow in SunOS 5.8 x86 Kris Kennaway (Jun 08)
- Re: $HOME buffer overflow in SunOS 5.8 x86 Gunnar Wolf (Jun 05)
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- Re: $HOME buffer overflow in SunOS 5.8 x86 Nicolas Dubee (Jun 05)
- Re: $HOME buffer overflow in SunOS 5.8 x86 Juergen P. Meier (Jun 05)