Re: Can anyone verify a core dump on /sbin/mingetty - FOLLOW UP - Getty also dumping core

From: Jeffrey Denton (dentonjat_private)
Date: Mon Dec 03 2001 - 16:55:07 PST

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    On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Bill Weiss wrote:
    
    > > Red-Hat 6.0 onwards (not tested any before) upto and including 7.2
    > > Mandrake 8.0 2.4.3-20mdksmp (presumably similar to redhat here)
    > > turbolinux 6.0
    > > SCO unix 5.0.5
    > >
    > > (this information was quickly gathered by several people; thanks everyone)
    >
    > Slackware 7.0 (maybe 8.0) uses agetty, which is not vunerable, as far as I can tell.
    > It just spits out a usage error.
    
    Slackware 8.0 is not vulnerable.
    
    # locate getty | grep bin
    /sbin/agetty
    
    # /sbin/agetty `perl -e 'print "A"x90000'`
    Usage: /sbin/agetty [-hiLmw] [-l login_program] [-t timeout] [-I initstring] [-H
    login_host] baud_rate,... line [termtype]
    or      [-hiLmw] [-l login_program] [-t timeout] [-I initstring] [-H login_host]
    line baud_rate,... [termtype]
    
    # cat /etc/slackware-version
    8.0.0 (tta)
    
    dentonj
    



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