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Minor problem passing a malformed IP to ping


I've noticed that calling ping with specially crafted IP addresses tends to lead to problems:

ping 192.168.000<...more zeros here...>000.1

With increasing '0' characters, random ascii characters begin to get included in the output.
After about 8k of zeros, I get segmentation faults (WinXPh).


Probably a case of GIGO, but reporting it just in case it is important security-wise. I'm not clued in on these things.

Best regards,
Denis


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