[ILUG] Fwd: RedHat: Buffer Overflow in "ls" and "mkdir"

[kevin lyda]

On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 02:06:44PM +0100, Chris Higgins wrote:
> It seems to be a shell script compiled into C[1] to obscure it,
> I just don't have the time at the moment to bother reversing
> the process.
> 
> [1] apt-cache show shc 'description'
> Description: Shell script compiler
>  shc creates a stripped  binary  executable  version  of  the
>  script specified with -f on the command line.
>  The binary version will get a .x extension appended and will
>  usually  be  a  bit  larger  in size than the original ascii
>  code. Generated C source code is saved in a  file  with  the
>  extension .x.c.

that's evil.

kevin, off to hunt down an rpm ior tarball of it...

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