Re: buffer overflow with greek characters, NIX

[Joerg Mayer <jmayer () loplof de>]

Checked with SuSE 7.3, XFree 4.2.0 and KDE 2.2.2:

Konqueror from KDE 2 didn't crash
links didn't crash
w3m didn't crash

  Ciao
        Jörg

On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 10:27:30PM +0300, MegaHz wrote:
> check this guy out,
>
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> From: "Simon Dickson" <simon () phpnode org>
> To: <costcon () cytanet com cy>; <bugtraq () securityfocus com>
> Cc: <eurohack () eurohack net>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 7:22 PM
> Subject: Re: buffer overflow, using greek characters, AGAIN!
>
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> > I dont know about IE, but I checked your test page in Konqueror 3.0 and it
> > killed everything.
> >
> > By everything I mean X crashed. I'll just explain what I run.
> >
> > Slackware 8.0
> > Millions of changes and updates
> > Use windowmaker 0.80.0
> > I just run the KDE Applications cos they are good.
> > Was running kmail, kate and konqueror at the time.
> > It crashed back a console shell.
> >
> > Simon
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>
> test page: http://megahz.cyhackportal.com/hey.html
>
> pls test it out on your own *nix boxes and let me know
>
>
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Joerg Mayer                                          <jmayer () loplof de>
I found out that "pro" means "instead of" (as in proconsul). Now I know
what proactive means.