full-disclosure - more segfaults on Redhat 6.x when passing "/proc/misc" as a parameter

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From: pekkas at netcore.fi (Pekka Savola)
Subject: more segfaults on Redhat 6.x when passing
 "/proc/misc" as a parameter

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Day Jay wrote:
> Hi, "more" segfaults when you pass "/proc/misc" to it
> as a parameter. This happens on my Redhat 6.0 and my
> Redhat 6.2 box. More is setuid root. See below:
[...]

This appears to be very bogus.  'more' is never setuid unless you made it 
so...

I didn't manage to segfaul 'more' on RHL62 box either..

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