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Re: Possible hole in xchat
From: oPr <opr () bsdaemon be>
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 18:49:04 -0600 (CST)
On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Korhan GURLER wrote:
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.
But Xchat 1.8.6 does segfault on freebsd 4.4
// // 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 -- Endless Loop: n., see Loop, Endless. Loop, Endless: n., see Endless Loop. -- Random Shack Data Processing Dictionary -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s:- a- C+++ UL++++ P+ L+++ E--- W- N o-- K- w O- M-- V- PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP t 5 X++++ R* tv+ b+++ DI D++ G e+ h! r-- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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Current thread:
- Possible hole in xchat SirExar (Jan 01)
- Re: Possible hole in xchat Ron DuFresne (Jan 02)
- Re: Possible hole in xchat Korhan GURLER (Jan 06)
- Re: Possible hole in xchat oPr (Jan 06)
- Re: Possible hole in xchat oPr (Jan 06)
- Re: Possible hole in xchat Kajim Haderes (Jan 06)