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Minor problem passing a malformed IP to ping
- From: Denis Lukianov <denis at voxelsoft dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 14:43:13 +0100
- Subject: 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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