Hi,
I stumbled upon a recursion overflow crash in BASH. It affects both my
Debian machine (this report), as well as the latest stable built from
source.
There's a slim chance this might be exploitable.
Best,
Gergely Kalman
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not c
der whether what I'm
suggesting makes any sense and since I am unable to do the work myself I
humbly thank you for yours and wish you a very nice day!
Gergely
On 6/6/22 16:14, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 6/2/22 4:00 PM, Gergely wrote:
>
>> I could not produce a scenario in 15 minutes that would indicate that
>> this corrupts other sections, as there is a considerable gap between the
>> stack and everything else. This is OS-dependen
On 6/7/22 15:49, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 6/7/22 7:57 AM, Gergely wrote:
>
>>> Because you haven't forced bash to write outside its own address space or
>>> corrupt another area on the stack. This is a resource exhaustion issue,
>>> no more.
>>
>>
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: i686
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu'
-DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/local/share/locale' -DPACKA
