[34930] in bugtraq
Buffer Overflow in ActivePerl ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Oliver@greyhat.de)
Mon May 17 19:51:57 2004
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Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 22:23:56 +0200
From: "Oliver@greyhat.de" <Oliver@greyhat.de>
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hi folks,
i played around with ActiveState's ActivePerl for Win32, and crashed
Perl.exe with the following command:
perl -e "$a="A" x 256; system($a)"
I wonder if this bug isnt known?!? Because system() is a very common
command....
Can anybody reproduce this?
I put together a little advisory on my website, including version
information and a debugger output (Drwatson):
http://www.oliverkarow.de/research/ActivePerlSystemBOF.txt
PS: Due to travel activity, i will not be able to respond to mails
within the next 8 days!
Regards,
Oliver
