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Re: procmail heap overflow


From: Artur Byszko / bikero <bikero () security hack pl>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 21:27:39 +0200

W Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 04:00:12PM -0700, Peter Mueller wrote:
Looks like 4.6-PRERELEASE is ok.

uname -a
FreeBSD xxx.yyy.com 4.6-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE #2: Sun May  5
22:57:25 PDT 2002     root@localhost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/xxx  i386
/usr/local/bin/procmail `perl -e '{print "A"x10240}'`=A
Word too long.

But in 4.6-STABLE:

bikero@phreak:~$ uname -a
FreeBSD phreak.uni.cc 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #1: Wed Jun 19 10:47:52
CEST 2002     bikero () phreak uni cc:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/bikero-security  i386
bikero@phreak:~$ /usr/local/bin/procmail `perl -e '{print "A"x10240}'`=A
^Cprocmail: Terminating prematurely
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

regards,
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