Vulnerability Development: Re: TCSH problems?

[Alex <alex () bsdfreak org>]

        Actually it seems the cd ~ is unnecessary and the number of /'s only
needs to be 1024 to cause the Abort, and subsequent core dumping.

-Alex

On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Alex wrote:

> Hi,
>
>       I've been experimenting with this a bit, and it crashes TCSH
> with an abort signal and dumps core on version 6.09.03 under OpenBSD 2.9:
>
> setenv HOME `perl -e 'print "/" x 10000'`
> cd ~
>
>       Is anyone else able to reproduce this?  I know the problem itself
> has little impact or significance, if any.  But, I'm merely curious, so
> please humor me. :-)
>
> -Alex