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Re: GNU ed heap overflow
From: Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:05:31 +0200
* Tavis Ormandy:
If you can specify an arbitrary filename, can't you execute commands anyway? $ ed '!ls>&2' bin dev home lost+found misc net proc sbin srv tmp var boot etc lib media mnt opt root selinux sys usr 0
Interesting. But this type of command execution is not possible with "red", which suffers from the same overflow.
Current thread:
- GNU ed heap overflow Florian Weimer (Aug 31)
- Re: GNU ed heap overflow Tavis Ormandy (Sep 01)
- Re: GNU ed heap overflow Florian Weimer (Sep 01)
- Re: GNU ed heap overflow Steven M. Christey (Sep 04)
- Re: GNU ed heap overflow Florian Weimer (Sep 04)
- Re: GNU ed heap overflow Florian Weimer (Sep 01)
- Re: GNU ed heap overflow Tavis Ormandy (Sep 01)
- Re: GNU ed heap overflow Steven M. Christey (Sep 04)