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Re: csh/tcsh vulnerability


From: Idan l. <shadow () x-war net>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:26:15 +0000

On Thursday 27 June 2002 03:41, you wrote:
OS : Solaris 8

[sf280r]#/home/dragory> bash
[dragory@sf280r dragory]$ export HOME=`perl -e 'print "x"x5000'`
[dragory@sf280r dragory]$ su
Password:(input correct password)
Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
[dragory@sf280r dragory]$ ls -l core
-rw-------   1 root       580464 Jun 27 12:29 core
[sf280r]#/home/dragory> gdb -q tcsh core
(no debugging symbols found)...Core was generated by `tcsh'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation Fault.
#0  0x29be4 in doglob ()

Is this vulnerable?



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Well depend if you su to another user for example user narf 
And you can overflow it , It is a vulnerability.


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