RE: Administrivia: List Announcement

[Shafik Yaghmour <subs () shafik net>]

On Tue, 13 May 2003, Cameron Brown wrote:

> If I supply an argv[1] of > 252 bytes, then byte 253 may (depending on
> many factors) overwrite the first byte of buf2.  This is going to be (I
> think) part of the size of the malloc'd buf2.  What interesting things
> can happen when you then free() an incorrectly-sized buf2 (or otherwise
> operate on buf2 if this were a real program) is something I am anxious
> to learn from others on this list!

        Hmmm, for me it seg faults on free(buf1). I am running on Linux 
BTW, here is some output from gdb:

[shafik@localhost VULNDEV]$ ./a.out `perl -e 'print "A"x2000'` `perl -e 'print "B"x2000'`
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
[shafik@localhost VULNDEV]$ gdb ./a.out ./core
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Core was generated by `./a.out 
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#0  0x400aa1e6 in chunk_free (ar_ptr=0x4015bc80, p=0x8049770) at 
malloc.c:3242
3242    malloc.c: No such file or directory.
        in malloc.c
(gdb) up
#1  0x400a9fc0 in __libc_free (mem=0x8049778) at malloc.c:3154
3154    in malloc.c
(gdb) up
#2  0x080485b3 in main (argc=3, argv=0xbfffe9d4) at vulndev-1.c:26
26              free(buf1);
(gdb)

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