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uninitialized buffer in midnight commander
From: "Ilya Teterin" <alienhard () mail ru>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:47:23 +0400
Midnight Commander is using uninitialized buffer for handling symlinks in VFS (tar, cpio). See vfs/direntry.c, handling of buf[] at vfs_s_resolve_symlink(). I wonder but it works almost properly ;-) On linux-i386 I can reach stack buffer overflow using specially crafted archive. Open http://buggzy.narod.ru/exp.tgz in mc's VFS to test (mc will crash). Affected systems/vendors/archs: at least linux-i386, mc-4.5.52 to mc-4.6.0, too lazy to test others ;-) P.S. Greetings to iDEFENSE VCP. I'm tired and hungry ;)
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