full-disclosure - Buffer Overflow in ActivePerl ?

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Message-ID: <BAY9-DAV1683ci1Es8C00031f85@hotmail.com>
From: se_cur_ity at hotmail.com (morning_wood)
Subject: Buffer Overflow in ActivePerl ?

>Can anybody reproduce this?

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\>perl -e "$a="A" x 256; system($a)"
'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

[BIG CRASH HERE]

C:\>perl -v

This is perl, v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread