Re: TCSH problems?

From: KF (dotslashat_private)
Date: Wed Jun 06 2001 - 04:33:16 PDT

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    Yeah see my post from a few hours before... titled "bash overflows"
    
    I have seen at least one post for linux bash overflows but not much
    follow up for other OS's.
    http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/templates/archive.pike%3Flist%
    3D1%26tid%3D13697%26end%3D2001-06-09%26threads%3D0%26start%3D2001-06-03%26
    This seems to affect bash and csh and tcsh on SCO and SunOS both.
    
    ... gdb dumps are provided with my mailing... 
    -KF 
    
    
    Alex wrote:
    > 
    >         After some ktracing, and code auditing by myself and a colleague,
    > we believe the problem *may* infact be in libc's setenv() and getenv()
    > functions.  We were able to duplicate the bug on various platforms, mostly
    > causing signal 6s and dumping cores.  Feedback would be appreciated
    > 
    > > > setenv HOME `perl -e 'print "/" x 10000'`
    > 
    >                                         ^ Length varies from 1024-10000
    > for effectiveness on diffrent OSes.
    > 
    > -Alex
    



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