*nix Issue - Anyone with 'mingetty':
After all the vi overflows, and wu-ftpd etc recently I thought I would have a
sniff around a default redhat 7.1 box too see what I could find. Anyway I
managed to dump core on /sbin/mingetty and thought it would be worth
reporting:
See below for the shell out:
[m0le_at_mainframe m0le]$ /sbin/mingetty `perl -e 'print "A"x9000'`
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
[m0le_at_mainframe m0le]$ id
uid=500(m0le) gid=500(m0le) groups=500(m0le)
(standard user account)
This only works by doing this:
/sbin/mingetty `perl -e 'print "A"x9000'`
when I did the following:
[m0le_at_mainframe m0le]$ cd /sbin
[m0le_at_mainframe /sbin]$ ./mingetty `perl -e 'print "A"x9000'`
Segmentation fault
[m0le_at_mainframe /sbin]$
No core dump.... It doesn't seem to dump in the sbin directory, however I've
successfully dumped from several other dir's.
I am running a RedHat7.1. I would appreciate some feedback from other
distros whith mingetty running.
Thanks
Scott Mackenzie.
Received on Dec 03 2001
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