Re: Possible hole in xchat

From: oPr (oprat_private)
Date: Sun Jan 06 2002 - 16:37:58 PST

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    On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Korhan GURLER wrote:
    
    > 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.
    >
    
    xchat 1.8.2 does NOT segfault in FreeBSD 4.4
    
    > //
    > // 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
    >
    
    tried 10000 chars .. nothing happened
    
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