Vulnerability Development: RE: TCSH problems?

[Yonatan Bokovza <Yonatan () xpert com>]

Hi,
I can't reproduce it on FreeBSD 4.3 of 29/05/2001 with TCSH
6.10.0000.
On any value larger than 10234 I get "Word too long" from
setenv, and if the value is correct "cd ~" goes to /
Yonatan.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex [mailto:alex () bsdfreak org]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 10:01
> To: vuln-dev () securityfocus com
> Subject: TCSH problems?
>
>
> 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