From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
To: "Jonel Rienton" <nelski@jonelrienton.org>, <zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk>
Subject: Re: buffer overflow on zsh-3.1.9
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 18:38:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1000814183801.ZM10110@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000501c0061e$5a87d210$cc1f1d0a@ldiarlnt4>
On Aug 14, 1:34pm, Jonel Rienton wrote:
} Subject: buffer overflow on zsh-3.1.9
It's not a buffer overflow.
} 1. hold down the alt key
} 2. while holding alt key press 9 six times
You've just told zsh that you want it to repeat the next command 999999
times.
} 3 release both keys, hit any letter or number
The next command is to insert that character. Zsh faithfully attempts to
insert one character 999999 times. Every 256 or so insertions it allocates
a larger buffer; eventually your system runs out of memory and zsh gives
up and crashes.
The buffer didn't overflow -- that is, I doubt zsh wrote any bytes beyond
the bounds of any buffer it succeeded in allocating.
We *could* put some sort of arbitrary limit on the maximum numeric prefix
argument, to prevent large repetitions like this, but this is clearly a
case of pilot error rather than programming error.
--
Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises
http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com
Zsh: http://www.zsh.org | PHPerl Project: http://phperl.sourceforge.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-08-14 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-08-14 18:34 Jonel Rienton
2000-08-14 18:38 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2000-08-14 23:13 ` Jonel Rienton
2000-08-15 1:04 ` Bart Schaefer
2000-08-15 3:19 ` Dan Nelson
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