Re: Possible hole in xchat

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On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Korhan GURLER wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 SirExar () crazy-horse net wrote:
>
> // Slackware 8.0
> //
> // Xchat 1.8.5
>
> Xchat 1.8.6  does seg faults in Slackware 8.0 too.

But Xchat 1.8.6 does segfault on freebsd 4.4

> //
> // When you excute a command using exec -o in xchat, the command is excuted
> // and the output sent to the current window.
> // If you excute a command of a lengthy nature, such as 5000 characters : )
> //  Xchat seg faults, this could lead to possible buffer overflow
> // problems, because the memory address is rewritten. I used perl
>
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