Re: Buffer overflow in awk

[Charles-Edouard Ruault <cruault () 724 com>]

same behaviour on GNU Awk 3.1.0, on redhat 7.2

Walter Jr. wrote:

> 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
> )


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Charles-Edouard Ruault