Re: vi buffer overflow

[Kaneda Akira <k_aneda () yahoo com>]

Did some testing of my own.

on Redhat 7.0 (VIM 5.7.8)
# vi `perl -e 'print "A" x 9000'`
Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV
Vim: Finished.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
# uname -a
Linux riven 2.2.16-22 #1 Tue Aug 22 16:49:06 EDT 2000 i686 unknown
#

however du on redhat 7 was okay (du version 4.0x)

Also tested my slackware 7 system, vi and du didnt
crash (vi/elvis 2.1_4, du 4.0)
[Slackware system: Linux myst 2.2.16 #121 Fri Jun 16 20:43:40 PDT 2000
i486 unknown]

--- KF <dotslash () snosoft com> wrote:
> Not sure how big of a deal either of these are due
> to the fact that they
> are not suid... any thoughts?
>
> # vi `perl -e 'print "A" x 9000'`
> Memory fault - core dumped
>
> # du `perl -e 'print "A" x 9000'`
> Memory fault - core dumped
>
>
> # uname -a
> SCO_SV scosysv 3.2 5.0.6 i386
>
> -KF

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