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Message-ID: <37522422-A862-11D8-BDB2-000A95C585F0@troelsbay.dk>
From: troelsbay at troelsbay.dk (Troels Bay)
Subject: Buffer Overflow in ActivePerl ?

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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