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Message-ID: <87od381eb8.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:05:31 +0200
From: Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: GNU ed heap overflow
* Tavis Ormandy:
> If you can specify an arbitrary filename, can't you execute commands
> anyway?
>
> $ ed '!ls>&2'
> bin dev home lost+found misc net proc sbin srv tmp var
> boot etc lib media mnt opt root selinux sys usr
> 0
Interesting. But this type of command execution is not possible with
"red", which suffers from the same overflow.
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