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Re: BUG in /bin/bash

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Digital Dreamer)
Fri Aug 23 11:59:31 1996

Date: 	Thu, 22 Aug 1996 19:19:59 -0600
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From: Digital Dreamer <dreamer@garrison.inetcan.net>
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On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Red Barchetta wrote:

> Their test string "bash -c 'ls\377who'" gave this output on my Solaris 2.5
> system:
>
>         bash: ls377who: command not found
>
> Can anyone verify that this is really a problem?
>
> Ernie Pistor
>

The following program demonstrated it on this Linux machine.

-> snip

#include <stdio.h>

void main(void) {
  system("ls\377w");
}

-> snip

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