[8002] in bugtraq
Re: Locate overflow / Promiscuous mode / Posting tips
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wolfram Schneider)
Mon Sep 21 16:40:49 1998
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 16:11:12 +0200
Reply-To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FREEBSD.ORG>
From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FREEBSD.ORG>
X-To: crispin@CSE.OGI.EDU
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <3605442D.DC603C24@cse.ogi.edu>; from Crispin Cowan on Sun,
Sep 20, 1998 at 11:06:37AM -0700
I fixed most of the locate bugs in FreeBSD 2 years ago. You
can run locate on garbage and it will not core.
$ locate -d /kernel foobar
locate: locate database header corrupt, bigram char outside 0, 32-127: 11
The sources are available at the FreeBSD FTP server or at
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/locate
Wolfram
