[23566] in bugtraq
Re: ProFTPD - Problems in file globbing, gives segmentation fault.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Przemyslaw Frasunek)
Wed Dec 19 19:15:30 2001
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From: Przemyslaw Frasunek <venglin@freebsd.lublin.pl>
To: "Mattias _" <surre1@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 20:47:10 +0100
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On Wednesday 19 December 2001 14:22, you wrote:
> The ftpd-child dies with signal 11 (SEGV), but the server stays up.
> The question is if it’s possible to do something nasty with this!?
I've played about 2 hours with it. Looks like, there is no way to modify
pointer passed to free(), it always points to beginning of 'Out of memory'
string.
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