Re: TCSH problems?

[KF <dotslash () snosoft com>]

Yeah see my post from a few hours before... titled "bash overflows"

I have seen at least one post for linux bash overflows but not much
follow up for other OS's.
http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/templates/archive.pike%3Flist%
3D1%26tid%3D13697%26end%3D2001-06-09%26threads%3D0%26start%3D2001-06-03%26
This seems to affect bash and csh and tcsh on SCO and SunOS both.

... gdb dumps are provided with my mailing... 
-KF 


Alex wrote:
>         After some ktracing, and code auditing by myself and a colleague,
> we believe the problem *may* infact be in libc's setenv() and getenv()
> functions.  We were able to duplicate the bug on various platforms, mostly
> causing signal 6s and dumping cores.  Feedback would be appreciated
>
> > > setenv HOME `perl -e 'print "/" x 10000'`
>
>                                         ^ Length varies from 1024-10000
> for effectiveness on diffrent OSes.
>
> -Alex