full-disclosure - Re: Buffer Overflow in ActivePerl?

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From: volker.tanger at detewe.de (Volker Tanger)
Subject: Re: Buffer Overflow in ActivePerl?

On Tue, 18 May 2004 11:03:40 +0200 Axel Beckert <beckert@...s.de> wrote:
> Am Mon, May 17, 2004 at 10:23:56PM +0200, Oliver@...yhat.de schrieb:
> > i played around with ActiveState's ActivePerl for Win32, and crashed
> > Perl.exe with the following command:
> > 
> > perl -e "$a="A" x 256; system($a)"

Your command line parameters for perl.exe are probably:
	1.)	-e
	2.)	"$a="
	3.)	A
	4.)	" x 256; system($a)"

Thus are you sure you get $A set with 256 "A"s?

Are you crashing system() or perl.exe's command line parser?

Please define "crashed".

Bye

Volker Tanger
ITK Security