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man -K overflow


From: "enthh () FLASH NET" <enthh () FLASH NET>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:39:57 -0500

man crashes when too many characters (around 8300) are passed thru the -K option (tested in Slackware 7.0.0).

$ man -K `perl -e '{print "A"x"8285"}'`
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
$

it isnt exploitable, as the buffer is modified before it segv's.

enthh

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