Re: Solaris 6 : ftp client core dump

From: Casper H.S. *** (Casper.***@Sun.COM)
Date: 03/10/03

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    From: Casper H.S. *** <Casper.***@Sun.COM>
Date: 10 Mar 2003 15:24:21 GMT

    gsimenel@chez.com (Guillaume Simenel) writes:

    >230 User ftpuser logged in.
    >ftp> get {^?
    >Segmentation Fault(coredump)

    >I might be totally wrong but doesn't it look like a beginning of
    >buffer overflow ? If it isn't could anyone tell me the reason for this
    >? If it is it might be an old one (and I would therfore apologize to
    >all of you).

    First of all, the thing that core dumped is your ftp client, not
    the server; secondly, it looks more like a generic programming error
    dereferencing a bad or NULL pointer than a buffer overflow (judging
    by the input)

    Casper 

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