Re: I think I may have found a possible dos attack vector within bash.

[dethrophes]

Thanks Greg that makes more sense.
I would have recognised DoS, dos though :) showing my age I guess.

I'm inclined to doubt though that it can be defined as a Bash DoS 
whatever it is, otherwise a lot of installation/bash scripts would be up 
for the chop ;).

Am 20.03.2012 19:00, schrieb Greg Wooledge:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 06:47:17PM +0100, dethrophes wrote:
> > Secondly when you say dos? you mean a windows command prompt or you
> > actually mean DOS 6.22, dosbox, or a text box what do you consider dos?.
> He meant DoS, or "Denial of Service".  He believes he has found some sort
> of security bug/exploit.
>
> He responded to me privately (his C code has nothing whatsoever to do with
> the issue), and I do not believe that what he found qualifies as a denial
> of service exploit.  If he wishes to bring the actual issue to the bug-bash
> mailing list, then we can discuss it publically, but I'll respect his
> desire to maintain privacy at this time.