full-disclosure - Buffer Overflow in ActivePerl ?

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From: stefmit at comcast.net (Stef)
Subject: Buffer Overflow in ActivePerl ?

Which part of :

> "i played around with ActiveState's ActivePerl for Win32"
                                                                 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
didn't you understand?

On May 17, 2004, at 7:27 PM, Troels Bay wrote:

>
> Well, it dosen't do anything on my system (not sure if non-X86 systems 
> are supposed to be affected...). Anyway, it just returns to the shell.
>
> System running:
> Apple MacOSX 10.3.4 [build 7H56]
>
>
> Chii:~ Tiger$ perl -e "$a="A" x 256; system($a)"
> Chii:~ Tiger$
>
>
>
> On May 18, 2004, at 00:44, morning_wood wrote:
>
>> Can anybody reproduce this?