Re: man -K overflow

[John <johns () TAMPABAY RR COM>]

This doesn't apply to Debian 2.3 because -K isn't a switch.
Though a valid switch is -k it's not affected by this.

john@nbs:/usr/local/$ man -K `perl -e '{print "A"x"8285"}'`
man: invalid option -- K

> "enthh () FLASH NET" wrote:
>
> man crashes when too many characters (around 8300) are passed thru the
> -K option (tested in Slackware 7.0.0).
>
> $ man -K `perl -e '{print "A"x"8285"}'`
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> $
>
> it isnt exploitable, as the buffer is modified before it segv's.
>
> enthh