[19077] in bugtraq
m4 (GNU) Buffer Overflow, Slackware Confirmed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avro Nelson)
Thu Feb 8 15:01:26 2001
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Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 15:15:17 -0700
Reply-To: Avro Nelson <aanelson@ESTEC.COM>
From: Avro Nelson <aanelson@ESTEC.COM>
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The problem exists in the Slackware x86 7.1.0 Distro as well.
>On Fre, Feb 02, 2001 at 09:36:29 +0100, Tomasz Kužniar wrote:
>> The same problem in most (all?) distributions is with m4 - GNU macro
>> processor code, when trying use -G option:
>>
>> mezon@beata:~$ m4 -G %x%x%x%x
>> m4: 40012a48380491e00: No such file or directory
Confirmed for Slackware Linux 7.1.0
aanelson@Boxy:/etc$ m4 -G %x
m4: 400fe9b4: No such file or directory
aanelson@Boxy:/etc$ m4 -G %qx
m4: 4000aa70400fe9b4: No such file or directory
aanelson@Boxy:/etc$ m4 %x
m4: 400fe9b4: No such file or directory
aanelson@Boxy:/# m4 --version
GNU m4 1.4
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