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RE: Buffer overflow in awk
From: Hani Mustafa <hani.mustafa () silksys com>
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 19:26:10 +0200
Try 8025 euclid#awk -f `perl -e 'print "A" x 8205'` awk: fatal error: internal error Aborted (core dumped) 8204 gives an output similar to what you have pasted. At 06:07 AM 3/17/2002 +1000, Kosh Naranek wrote:
On debian 2.2r3 unstable squall:~# awk -f `perl -e 'print "A" x 1022'` awk: cannot open AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAA (File name too long) Same for 8177 and 65535 -----Original Message----- From: Charles-Edouard Ruault [mailto:cruault () 724 com] Sent: Saturday, 16 March 2002 03:06 To: Walter Jr. Cc: vuln-dev () securityfocus com Subject: Re: Buffer overflow in awk 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 >> >) > -- Charles-Edouard Ruault
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