Re: Buffer overflow in awk

["Walter Jr." <walterjr () pr gov br>]

So does conectiva  2.2.13-9cl , awk 3.0.3

From: "Max" <flux9 () 101freeway net>

> I can reproduce this on Slackware 8.0, but it takes 8177 char's to
> segfault.

> > From: keoki [mailto:keoki () techie com] 
> >
> > A buffer overflow exist in awk(named awk on most 
> > systems, but actualy is gawk/GNU awk) when calling 
> the -f option, to include an awk script, and supplying a 
> filename with a buffer length of 1022 and up. 
> [root@neural keoki]# awk -f `perl -e 'print "A" x 1022'` 
> awk: fatal error: internal error 
> Abort (core dumped)