Vulnerability Development: RE: vi buffer overflow

[Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>]

> NOTE TO MOD: please remove my name and email from this message.  thanks.
OK.

> try 14000 and up.  weird behavior starts there.  also, once you hit around
> 50000 things start to dump core.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Piyush Agarwal [mailto:pvagarwal () yahoo com]
> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 11:25 AM
> To: vuln-dev () securityfocus com
> Subject: Re: vi buffer overflow
>
> Test results on SunOS 5.6:
>
> # vi `perl -e 'print "A" x 9000'`
> File name too long
> [Hit enter to return]
>
> # du `perl -e 'print "A" x 9000'`
> File name too long
>
> both commands dont result in to a seg fault.