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Re: man -K overflow
From: "enthh () FLASH NET" <enthh () FLASH NET>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 22:45:11 -0500
that's because SuSE doesn't run man1.5g, thus SuSE is not vulnerable. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Damian Menscher" <menscher () UIUC EDU> To: <VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM> Sent: 19 February, 2001 6:16 PM Subject: Re: man -K overflow
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Thomas Cannon wrote:On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Enrique Maglietta wrote:Results on SuSE 7.0 , no problem. linux:~ # man -k `perl -e '{print "A"x"8285"}'`
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAA
<snipped 8000 chars> I see you typed "-k" and not "-K" ... I'm not professing to know that there's a difference in what the flags do based on case, but I'd guess that this would indicate it (although this isn't on SuSE):That's because, on SuSE:man -K fooman: invalid option -- K Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student & Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Current thread:
- man -K overflow enthh () FLASH NET (Feb 14)
- Re: man -K overflow Knud Erik Højgaard - CyberCity Support (Feb 18)
- Re: man -K overflow Rodrigo Barbosa (aka morcego) (Feb 19)
- Re: man -K overflow Enrique Maglietta (Feb 19)
- Re: man -K overflow Arturo Busleiman (Feb 19)
- Re: man -K overflow Petr Hrbek (Feb 19)
- Re: man -K overflow Thomas Cannon (Feb 19)
- Re: man -K overflow Damian Menscher (Feb 19)
- Re: man -K overflow enthh () FLASH NET (Feb 19)
- Re: man -K overflow Rodrigo Barbosa (aka morcego) (Feb 19)
- Re: man -K overflow Knud Erik Højgaard - CyberCity Support (Feb 18)
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- Re: man -K overflow Techno Bob (Feb 20)