Vulnerability Development mailing list archives

Re: Buffer overflow in awk


From: <sekure () hadrion com br>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 15:39:43 -0300

Hi,

In my Debian Potato r5 and Conectiva Linux 7 it worked too! 

But i would ask the some thing, why find a bug in awk and exploit it ? 

1) It isn't suid root in linux.
2) doesn't used in web applications

Then, why exploit it ?

ps.: sorry for my poor english.

cheers.

[ ]'s


Current thread: