>Number:         13850
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       /bin/sh coredumps if fed many tildes
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Sep 01 15:07:01 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ben Harris
>Release:        2001-02-20
>Organization:
>Environment:
Both macppc 1.5 and arm26 -current.

>Description:
If it gets a very long string of tildes on stdin (either from the keyboard
or a pipe) /bin/sh segfaults.

>How-To-Repeat:
viking:~$ perl -e 'print "~" x 3000' | sh
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

It may be necessary to increase 3000.

>Fix:

>Release-Note:
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