[4153] in bugtraq
Re: xterm segfaults from environment variables - too obvious
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Belits)
Tue Mar 11 10:41:00 1997
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 02:50:36 -0800
Reply-To: Alex Belits <abelits@PHOBOS.ILLTEL.DENVER.CO.US>
From: Alex Belits <abelits@PHOBOS.ILLTEL.DENVER.CO.US>
X-To: David Luyer <luyer@ucs.uwa.edu.au>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95q.970311144243.29917C-100000@typhaon.ucs.uwa.edu.au>
On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, David Luyer wrote:
> Firstly, the bug. What a joke. A segfault from xterm this easily.
>
> Putting a large string into in LC_CTYPE or LANG will cause xterm from
> Debian-1.2.8 (the latest and supposedly stable and secure) Linux to
> segfault.
This bug is fixed for x86 unices in XFree86 3.2 and for others in
X11R6.3. Or at least documentation and developers claim so. I have tested
it on XFree86 3.2, and it doesn't segfault xterm (while test program, of
course, gets its SIGSEGV). What versions of X and libc are in
Debian-1.2.8?
--
Alex
