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Re: vi buffer overflow


From: Thomas Graf <reeler () reeler org>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 12:59:56 +0100

hey

* k_aneda () yahoo com wrote:
Did some testing of my own.

on Redhat 7.0 (VIM 5.7.8)
# vi `perl -e 'print "A" x 9000'`
Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV

Same for 5.6 releases but it's at least gone in the 6.0.61
(maybe in all 6.0.x releases) release. The more critical point
is that the filename is saved in the .viminfo file and if you
open it in an older release vim will segfault until you
remove the entry from the file.

jaa, thomas
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