Re: wget core dumps

["Charles 'core' Stevenson" <core () dekode org>]

Kevin,

> [root@linuxppc ]#  make
> download libbf-0.8.2b.tar.gz
> wget --passive-ftp
> ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/Mirrors/ftp.psy.uq.oz.au/pub/Crypto/libeay/libbf-0.8.2b.tar.gz
> make: *** [libbf-0.8.2b.tar.gz] Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Well it's not segfaulting on my debian powerpc system. 

[-(core@euclid:~)> wget --passive-ftp
ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/Mirrors/ftp.psy.uq.oz.au/pub/Crypto/libeay/libbf-0.8.2b.tar.gz 
--16:31:22-- 
ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/Mirrors/ftp.psy.uq.oz.au/pub/Crypto/libeay/libbf-0.8.2b.tar.gz
           => `libbf-0.8.2b.tar.gz'
Connecting to sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk:21... connected!
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD
/Mirrors/ftp.psy.uq.oz.au/pub/Crypto/libeay ... done.
==> PASV ... done.    ==> RETR libbf-0.8.2b.tar.gz ... done.
Length: 40,210 (unauthoritative)

    0K .......... .......... .......... .........            100% @  
1.83 KB/s

16:32:02 (1.82 KB/s) - `libbf-0.8.2b.tar.gz' saved [40210]
[-(core@euclid:~)> wget `perl -e 'print "A" x 9000'`
--16:36:35-- 
http://AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
<snip>
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/
           => `index.html'
Connecting to
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
<snip>
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA: Host not found.

Hope that helps :-)

peace,
core

P.S. When are we gonna get together on some more ppc shellcode?