Re: Buffer overflow in awk

From: Jose Nazario (joseat_private)
Date: Mon Mar 18 2002 - 06:30:19 PST

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On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, zero wrote:

> OpenBSD 3.0

openbsd uses nawk, aka "new awk" from the original bell labs team.

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/awk/README?rev=1.4&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

they'e independent implementation (gawk and nawk). not a big surprise
they're not vulnerable to the same overflow.

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