Re: Buffer overflow in ftpd and locate bug

[ap1 () TORCH ROWAN EDU (Andrew Pitman)]

Eugeny,

Don't panic!!

I'm CC'ing this to Bugtraq in case some aren't aware of this (very simple)
solution:

        use rm -d (as superuser) on the top-level directory.  Then run
fsck to free the unreferenced inodes below it in the 'tree'.

Andrew
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On Tue, 4 May 1999, Eugeny Kuzakov wrote:

> On Sun, 2 May 1999, Przemyslaw Frasunek wrote:
>
> >   Example:
> >
> >   I'm creating a directory structure with 300 subdirectories, each
> > 255 chars length (source in attachment, also it's possible to do it
> > via ftpd, because it calls mkdir() and chdir()).
> I tryed it under 2.2-stable.
> /usr/bin/find -- yes, core dumpes.
> /bin/rm can not delete this tree...8-[  ]
> I don't know how to remove it....
>
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