Re: Buffer Overflow in ActivePerl ?

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Oliver () greyhat de wrote:

> hi folks,
>
> i played around with ActiveState's ActivePerl for Win32, and crashed 
> Perl.exe with the following command:
>
> perl -e "$a="A" x 256; system($a)"
>
> I wonder if this bug isnt known?!? Because system() is a very common 
> command....
> Can anybody reproduce this?
>
> I put together a little advisory on my website, including version 
> information and a debugger output (Drwatson):
>
>    http://www.oliverkarow.de/research/ActivePerlSystemBOF.txt
>
>
> PS:  Due to travel activity, i will not be able to respond to mails 
> within the next 8 days!
>
> Regards,
>
> Oliver
http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=354145

It's hard to tell, could be either a CRT or a perl (build) error as 
noted in the thread.

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