From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: segfault with exceedingly long path
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 17:44:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <140119174406.ZM18563@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <140119171049.ZM18371@torch.brasslantern.com>
On Jan 19, 5:10pm, Bart Schaefer wrote:
}
} In spite of that ... we could at least not dump core in this specific
} case.
Given that this is a buffer overflow, this is probably a security concern
as well, because a carefully crafted file path could cause memory to
be overwritten with a desired pattern, and a symbolic link could be used
to divert the shell into that directory.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-20 1:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-18 0:20 Axel Beckert
2014-01-18 1:49 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-01-18 9:11 ` Axel Beckert
2014-01-19 19:10 ` Peter Stephenson
2014-01-19 21:35 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-01-19 22:13 ` Simon Ruderich
2014-01-20 0:02 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-01-20 1:10 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-01-20 1:44 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2014-01-20 3:20 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-02-24 14:38 ` Oliver Kiddle
2014-02-24 15:38 ` Bart Schaefer
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