Re: Possible hole in xchat

[Korhan GURLER <korhan () netkeyfi com>]

On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 SirExar () crazy-horse net wrote:

// Slackware 8.0
//
// Xchat 1.8.5

Xchat 1.8.6  does seg faults in Slackware 8.0 too.

//
// When you excute a command using exec -o in xchat, the command is excuted
// and the output sent to the current window.
// If you excute a command of a lengthy nature, such as 5000 characters : )
//  Xchat seg faults, this could lead to possible buffer overflow
// problems, because the memory address is rewritten. I used perl

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