Re: Can anyone verify a core dump on /sbin/mingetty

From: J.R. Blain (cowboy@clockmedia.com)
Date: 12/04/01 

Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 23:14:21 -0500
From: "J.R. Blain" <cowboy@clockmedia.com>
To: vuln-dev@securityfocus.com

Debian 2.2 (potato)
cowboy@cowboy:~$ /sbin/mingetty `perl -e 'print "A"x9000'`
Segmentation fault
cowboy@cowboy:~$ id
uid=1000(cowboy) gid=1000(cowboy) groups=1000(cowboy),29(audio)
cowboy@cowboy:~$ uname -a
Linux cowboy 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 00:24:41 EST 2000 i686 unknown

Chip Mefford wrote:
>
> RH 7.1
>
> [nor_user@crow nor_user]$ /sbin/mingetty `perl -e 'print "A"x9000'`
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> [nor_user@crow nor_user]$ uname -a
> Linux crow 2.4.3-12 #1 Fri Jun 8 15:05:56 EDT 2001 i686 unknown 

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