[Full-Disclosure] Re: Buffer Overflow in ActivePerl ?
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Date: 05/18/04
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To: full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com, bugtraq@securityfocus.com Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 13:08:31 -0500
Oliver@greyhat.de wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=354145
It's hard to tell, could be either a CRT or a perl (build) error as
noted in the thread.
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