[PLUG] crashing a bash shell script with double free memory errors on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 OS

Michael michael at jamhome.us
Thu Feb 10 17:57:29 UTC 2011




Why do I look at this and think "buffer overflow attack"?

Jason Barnett wrote:
> Works fine here on Phenom II  running
Kubuntu 10.10 : 2.6.35-25-generic
> #44-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 21 17:40:44
UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 8:48 PM,
website reader
> <website.reader3 at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> The following bash shell script seems to constantly crash my AMD
64
>> Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid OS with a double free memory error on line
4.  I am
>> running linux v 2.6.32-28-generic on a 64 bit
machine.
>>
>> Can anyone verify this behavior, or is it
just my machine that has
>> this pecularity?
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>>
>>
pt=[[-55517580309947222732837578669649287278566706306631411995962715689826278771124450297397880471257262496293938114245520959920409660651712671014665925362459192354337236812794516037929882087885510388267074617499102764734781352892939439314280397835207423649529279241486636872033268537210882888315381726337545380720063403722524745889194607026662609680368944982650477331025670888073271328074785518596280467124062788601471768882248427023288210490088304407731925748717237788664224898/542954599856477549692416718738058189276379984275196516255664752186500861130027362470833508718165099850926286495588869929745121508933018411993947996729287037933117053582640079468797047430083828042984652752783290930571879602727814859672270166472363767089468364388369604476255576071493030133222458609974235013658050854294921501511063049204548688642699663448041966820838313778463830493836451410361109495769696566852087034094135359691326846043923682529711614631495466332529,469827605567726980258950529869103166234
>  36
>>
>> 
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>  83
>>
>> 
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>> echo "point $pt"
>> echo point $pt
>> exit
>>
>> - Randall
>>
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