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Re: Segfault in login on debian potatoR2


From: Emre Yildirim <emre () SRENGINEERING COM>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 22:00:10 -0600

On Friday 09 March 2001 18:04 US Central Time, Mike Fedyk wrote:
I don't know if this could be exploited is any way, but here's
something that I've seen.  This is on x86 on two machines and a ppc
g3.

#su
#login
login:
^D
Segmentation fault

I could reproduce this on mandrake 7.2, and redhat 7.0.
-rw-------    1 root     root       450560 Mar 10 21:53 core

I also tested this on NetBSD 1.5, didn't work.

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