Scott, that's a positive on RH 7.2, 7.0, and LinuxPPC Q4 dist. Good find. core dump: #0 0x400748cf in _IO_vfprintf (s=0xbfffd3c0, format=0x8049928 "%s: %s", ap=0xbfffd5ac) at ../sysdeps/i386/bits/string.h:343 #1 0x4008ea68 in _IO_vsprintf ( string=0xbfffd490 "/dev/", 'A' <repeats 195 times>..., format=0x8049928 "%s: %s", args=0xbfffd5a4) at iovsprintf.c:49 #2 0x08048f96 in alarm () #3 0x41414141 in ?? () Cannot access memory at address 0x41414141 Pedro. On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 14:46:31 +0000 smackenz <smackenzat_private> wrote: > *nix Issue - Anyone with 'mingetty': > > After all the vi overflows, and wu-ftpd etc recently I thought I would have a > sniff around a default redhat 7.1 box too see what I could find. Anyway I > managed to dump core on /sbin/mingetty and thought it would be worth > reporting: > > See below for the shell out: > > > [m0le@mainframe m0le]$ /sbin/mingetty `perl -e 'print "A"x9000'` > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > [m0le@mainframe m0le]$ id > uid=500(m0le) gid=500(m0le) groups=500(m0le) > > (standard user account) > > > This only works by doing this: > > /sbin/mingetty `perl -e 'print "A"x9000'` > > when I did the following: > > [m0le@mainframe m0le]$ cd /sbin > [m0le@mainframe /sbin]$ ./mingetty `perl -e 'print "A"x9000'` > Segmentation fault > [m0le@mainframe /sbin]$ > > No core dump.... It doesn't seem to dump in the sbin directory, however I've > successfully dumped from several other dir's. > > I am running a RedHat7.1. I would appreciate some feedback from other > distros whith mingetty running. > > Thanks > > Scott Mackenzie. > > > > -- Pedro Miller Rabinovitch Diretoria de Tecnologia Cipher Technology http://www.ciphertech.com.br ______ "Segurança em TI - uma especialidade Cipher Technology"
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