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Re: Buffer overflow in bash 1.14.7(1)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chet Ramey)
Tue Sep 8 13:41:50 1998

Date: 	Tue, 8 Sep 1998 11:56:01 -0400
Reply-To: chet@po.CWRU.Edu
From: Chet Ramey <chet@NIKE.INS.CWRU.EDU>
X-To:         wichert@WIGGY.ML.ORG
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To:  Message from wichert@WIGGY.ML.ORG of Sun, 6 Sep 1998 00:59:05
              +0200 (id <19980906005905.A15881@wiggy.ml.org>)

> Some further looking revealed bash segfaulted on doing a strlen on
> the length of the cwd, after getcwd() returned NULL since the cwd
> was too long.

This was fixed in bash-2.02.

--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer

Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University     Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu

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