Re: [Gtk-gnutella-devel] Buffer overflow in shell interface in HEAD branch

2004-07-06 Thread clayton rollins
Hi, (would've written sooner, but I had to fix a car real quick.) Christian Biere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: clayton rollins wrote: > Killing the program off at that point and starting a new telnet connection > caused the message: > (WARNING): Reading buffer overflow from 2130706433l:398 The warn

Re: [Gtk-gnutella-devel] Buffer overflow in shell interface in HEAD branch

2004-07-06 Thread Christian Biere
clayton rollins wrote: > Killing the program off at that point and starting a new telnet connection > caused the message: > (WARNING): Reading buffer overflow from 2130706433l:398 The warning message here was very poor i.e., using the buzz word "buffer overflow" and showing the IP address as a nu

Re: [Gtk-gnutella-devel] Buffer overflow in shell interface in HEAD branch

2004-07-06 Thread Thomas Schuerger
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 09:23:08PM +, clayton rollins wrote: > Hi all, > > Before I start, this isn't likely a huge security risk. It probably doesn't > require delay of release unless someone shows a practical exploit. Just from a quick glance: The buffer overflow warning is issued in shell