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Re: Possible bufferoverflow condition in lpr, xterm and xload


From: taob () io org (Brian Tao)
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 19:07:40 -0400


On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Christopher Masto wrote:

nimbus:~$ uname -sr
FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE

    I'm running XFree86 3.1.2E on a FreeBSD 2.2-960801-SNAP system...
``xterm -display `perl -e "print 'abcde' x 1000, ':0';"`'' causes a
segfault (but doesn't drop a core).
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob () io org, taob () ican net)
Senior Systems and Network Administrator, Internet Canada Corp.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"



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