Re: Does bash treat segment fault causing by scripts as security bugs ?

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/19/17 9:11 PM, kkk K wrote:
> ok，one poc I think should like this:
> =========================
> #!/bin/bash
> a="1||"
> b=`printf "%.s"$a {1..50000}`"1"
> eval $b
> =========================
> this code will make a segment fault, of cource , eval or printf actually is
> not necessary,
> the problem is about the "1 || 1 || .... 1" expression, 
> parser in interpreting  OR Expressions did not take recursive stack
> overflow into condsider,
> Will you take this as a security bug ?

Why do you consider this a security bug?  You overflow the process's stack
in exactly the same way you did before.  How does this elevate privilege?

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