Re: Possible hole in xchat

From: Korhan GURLER (korhanat_private)
Date: Sun Jan 06 2002 - 04:47:31 PST

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    On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 SirExar@crazy-horse.net wrote:
    
    // Slackware 8.0
    //
    // Xchat 1.8.5
    
    Xchat 1.8.6  does seg faults in Slackware 8.0 too.
    
    //
    // When you excute a command using exec -o in xchat, the command is excuted
    // and the output sent to the current window.
    // If you excute a command of a lengthy nature, such as 5000 characters : )
    //  Xchat seg faults, this could lead to possible buffer overflow
    // problems, because the memory address is rewritten. I used perl
    
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