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Re: Gzip & segmentation faults
From: spd () GTC1 CPS UNIZAR ES (J.A. Gutierrez)
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 17:21:39 +0100
Under NT, it just throws an exception. Probably is exploitable if you dinked with it enough. Instruction well in the executable's range references memory at 0x1.MS-DOS gzip screws-up totally.
With your altered.gz MD5 (altered.gz) = bd5fc9d6973a308f13dfe5de54d28e02 HPUX 68k => loops forever HPUX B.10.20 => loops forever SunOS 4.1.x => segmentation fault Solaris 2.x => segmentation fault Solaris x86 2.x => segmentation fault MkLinux 2.0.30-osfmach3 PPC => segmentation fault Linux 2.0.30 #2 i586 => segmentation fault MacOS 8.0 68k => loops forever MacOS 8.0 PPC => invalid compressed data--format violated (I'd be even hapier if I knew why it doesn't crash...) -- J.A. Gutierrez So be easy and free when you're drinking with me I'm a man you don't meet every day finger me for PGP (the pogues)
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