Re: man -K overflow

["enthh () FLASH NET" <enthh () FLASH NET>]

that's because SuSE doesn't run man1.5g, thus SuSE is not vulnerable.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Damian Menscher" <menscher () UIUC EDU>
To: <VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM>
Sent: 19 February, 2001 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: man -K overflow


> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Thomas Cannon wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Enrique Maglietta wrote:
> >
> > > Results on SuSE 7.0 , no problem.
> > >
> > > linux:~ # man -k `perl -e '{print "A"x"8285"}'`
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAA
> > >
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAA
> > <snipped 8000 chars>
> >
> > I see you typed "-k" and not "-K" ... I'm not professing to know that
> > there's a difference in what the flags do based on case, but I'd guess
> > that this would indicate it (although this isn't on SuSE):
>
> That's because, on SuSE:
>
> > man -K foo
> man: invalid option -- K
>
> Damian Menscher
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