RE: vi buffer overflow

From: Blue Boar (BlueBoarat_private)
Date: Fri Nov 09 2001 - 11:52:24 PST

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> 
> NOTE TO MOD: please remove my name and email from this message.  thanks.

OK.

> 
> try 14000 and up.  weird behavior starts there.  also, once you hit around
> 50000 things start to dump core.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Piyush Agarwal [mailto:pvagarwalat_private]
> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 11:25 AM
> To: vuln-devat_private
> Subject: Re: vi buffer overflow
> 
> Test results on SunOS 5.6:
> 
> # vi `perl -e 'print "A" x 9000'`
> File name too long
> [Hit enter to return]
> 
> # du `perl -e 'print "A" x 9000'`
> File name too long
> 
> both commands dont result in to a seg fault.
>

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