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

From: Matias Sedalo (s0t4ipv6at_private)
Date: Tue Dec 04 2001 - 01:17:53 PST

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    agetty is vulnerable on slackware 7.1...
    
    mothership:~$ uname -a
    Linux mothership 2.2.19-stealth #7 Wed Nov 7 06:54:37 ARST 2001 i586
    unknown
    
    mothership:~$ cat /etc/slackware-version
    7.1.0
    
    mothership:~$ ls -l /sbin/agetty
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin         13844 Jun 27  2000 /sbin/agetty*
    
    mothership:~$ id
    uid=1000(s0t4ipv6) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),7(lp)
    
    mothership:~$ /sbin/agetty 38400 `perl -e 'print "A"x8492'`
    Segmentation fault
    
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    On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Bill Weiss wrote:
    
    > Scott Mackenzie(smackenzat_private)@Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 08:07:50PM +0000:
    > > SEE MESSAGE :
    > > 'Can anyone verify a core dump on /sbin/mingetty'
    > > for the original post
    > > 
    > > The reason why there is no core dump from /sbin is because I didn't have 
    > > write access - should have noticed that but there you go.
    > > 
    > > Ok, bit more information:
    > > 
    > > This problem is positive in the following systems:
    > > * note there could and probably are more but I've only had word of the 
    > > following systems being tested
    > > 
    > > 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.
    > 
    > -- Bill Weiss
    > 
    



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