RE: vi buffer overflow

[Piyush Agarwal <pvagarwal () yahoo com>]

Tried values from 50000 to 150000 on SunOS 5.6 under
bash gives segmentation fault & bus error sometimes
while tcsh gives "Word too long"

-PA

--- Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com> wrote:
> > NOTE TO MOD: please remove my name and email from
> this message.  thanks.
>
> OK.
>
> > try 14000 and up.  weird behavior starts there. 
> also, once you hit around
> > 50000 things start to dump core.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Piyush Agarwal [mailto:pvagarwal () yahoo com]
> > Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 11:25 AM
> > To: vuln-dev () securityfocus com
> > Subject: Re: vi buffer overflow
> >
> > Test results on SunOS 5.6:
> >
> > # vi `perl -e 'print "A" x 9000'`
> > File name too long
> > [Hit enter to return]
> >
> > # du `perl -e 'print "A" x 9000'`
> > File name too long
> >
> > both commands dont result in to a seg fault.


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