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Re: Potential Denial of Service Vulnerability in embedded commands - Bas


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: Potential Denial of Service Vulnerability in embedded commands - Bash version 4.4.12(1) - Release
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 09:55:41 -0500
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On 11/7/17 6:58 AM, Alex Nichols wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> 
> I’m an Ethical Hacking student at Coventry university and while doing some
> exploit development on my Linux boxes I stumbled across a bug in the bash
> 4.4.12(1) - release.

As others have explained, this is not a bug, nor is it any kind of security
problem. You have requested more memory than your operating system can
supply. The memory allocation request fails, and bash exits.

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/



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