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Re: Buffer overflow in awk
From: "Walter Jr." <walterjr () pr gov br>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 13:30:22 -0300
So does conectiva 2.2.13-9cl , awk 3.0.3 From: "Max" <flux9 () 101freeway net>
I can reproduce this on Slackware 8.0, but it takes 8177 char's to segfault.
From: keoki [mailto:keoki () techie com] A buffer overflow exist in awk(named awk on most systems, but actualy is gawk/GNU awk) when callingthe -f option, to include an awk script, and supplying a filename with a buffer length of 1022 and up. [root@neural keoki]# awk -f `perl -e 'print "A" x 1022'` awk: fatal error: internal error Abort (core dumped)
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- RE: Buffer overflow in awk Max (Mar 15)
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- Re: Buffer overflow in awk Charles-Edouard Ruault (Mar 15)
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- Re: Buffer overflow in awk Walter Jr. (Mar 15)
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