RE: A different bash blues

I would assume this is also because of a recursive function filling up the stack (it segfaults on my Debian 3.0 on a push %edi in malloc()). I don't know how exploitable this is at all.

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From: admin@badger.sytes.net [mailto:admin@badger.sytes.net] Sent: Saturday, 15 February 2003 11:49 AM To: vuln-dev@securityfocus.com
Subject: A different bash blues

In relation to the Bash Blues thread, I have something that may be of interest.

eval `perl -e 'print ":;" x 97500'`

This causes bash to crash too sig 11. I don't know if this means anything
or not, but who knows, it may be useful to someone else. The number 97500
is most likely a lot higher that it needs to be but I have noticed that when I have tried this on different machines, it takes slightly different
amounts of :; to get it to crash. Received on Sun Feb 16 13:21:59 2003