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RE: Buffer overflow in awk
From: "Kosh Naranek" <kosh () cloud s2engine com>
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 06:07:50 +1000
On debian 2.2r3 unstable squall:~# awk -f `perl -e 'print "A" x 1022'` awk: cannot open AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAA (File name too long) Same for 8177 and 65535 -----Original Message----- From: Charles-Edouard Ruault [mailto:cruault () 724 com] Sent: Saturday, 16 March 2002 03:06 To: Walter Jr. Cc: vuln-dev () securityfocus com Subject: Re: Buffer overflow in awk same behaviour on GNU Awk 3.1.0, on redhat 7.2 Walter Jr. wrote:
So does conectiva 2.2.13-9cl , awk 3.0.3 From: "Max" <flux9 () 101freeway net>I can reproduce this on Slackware 8.0, but it takes 8177 char's to segfault.From: keoki [mailto:keoki () techie com] A buffer overflow exist in awk(named awk on most systems, but actualy is gawk/GNU awk) when callingthe -f option, to include an awk script, and supplying a filename with a buffer length of 1022 and up. [root@neural keoki]# awk -f `perl -e 'print "A" x 1022'` awk: fatal error: internal error Abort (core dumped)
-- Charles-Edouard Ruault
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