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Re: ProFTPD - Problems in file globbing, gives segmentation fault.


From: Przemyslaw Frasunek <venglin () freebsd lublin pl>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 20:47:10 +0100

On Wednesday 19 December 2001 14:22, you wrote:
The ftpd-child dies with signal 11 (SEGV), but the server stays up.
The question is if itÂ’s possible to do something nasty with this!?

I've played about 2 hours with it. Looks like, there is no way to modify 
pointer passed to free(), it always points to beginning of 'Out of memory' 
string.

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