Vulnerability Development: Re: TCSH problems?

[Sven van ´t Veer <sven () vip br>]

tcsh on Solaris8(Sparc) crashes too

Flux9 wrote:

> 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