Re: Buffer overflow in awk

From: sekureat_private
Date: Fri Mar 15 2002 - 10:39:43 PST

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Hi,

In my Debian Potato r5 and Conectiva Linux 7 it worked too! 

But i would ask the some thing, why find a bug in awk and exploit it ? 

1) It isn't suid root in linux.
2) doesn't used in web applications

Then, why exploit it ?

ps.: sorry for my poor english.

cheers.

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