full-disclosure - Buffer Overflow in ActivePerl ?

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Message-ID: <9C8B6AD4-A8BF-11D8-BDB2-000A95C585F0@troelsbay.dk>
From: troelsbay at troelsbay.dk (Troels Bay)
Subject: Buffer Overflow in ActivePerl ?

Hi Stef.

I understood as much as this guy wanted if anyone could reproduce it. 
And I understood that he himself was running an x86-system (which I 
mentioned). And then I just let you know that unix doesn't seem to be 
affected. Sorry if I did anything wrong.

On May 18, 2004, at 07:16, Stef wrote:

> 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?
>
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