From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Obscure overflow with very long path; completion
Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 11:26:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200505031026.j43AQwBE014903@news01.csr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DE6AE1FD-6A14-44CE-8CB2-3576B59DB5B6@remahl.se>
David Remahl wrote:
> Summary:
> Some very special circumstances triggers a buffer overflow of some
> kind (I believe it is on the heap, but I have not had time to look
> into it in detail) in the cd builtin.
I couldn't get this to happen with Fedora Core 3 on x86. It's possible
it's some library bug, but I agree it's more likely there's some
well-masked problem in memory management in zsh.
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Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> Software Engineer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-03 10:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-01 11:44 David Remahl
2005-05-03 10:26 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2005-05-06 4:10 ` Geoff Wing
2005-05-07 16:23 ` Bart Schaefer
2005-05-08 0:41 ` Geoff Wing
2005-05-21 18:42 ` Bart Schaefer
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