On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 12:53:11PM +0100, netinfinity wrote: > I was thinking about another way to possible bypass this code. > > POC: > > grep -fruit > > will trick the system into thinking it is a fruit thus crashing because of > stackoverflow and juice overflow. > > > the issue you describe is documented in the grep man page:
Known Bugs In addition, certain other obscure regular expressions require exponential time and space, and may cause grep to run out of memory. ls -lth /proc/kcore -r-------- 1 root root 128T 2010-12-04 14:21 /proc/kcore # *T* _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
