Vulnerability Development: Re: TCSH problems?

[Flux9 <flux9 () 101freeway net>]

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
Slackware 7.1, TCSH version 6.09 (from /var/log/packages/tcsh)

root () nyx:~# gdb /bin/tcsh
<snip>
# setenv HOME `perl -e 'print "/" x 10000'`

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0x18d9f1 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6

- Max