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Re: xterm segfaults from environment variables - too obvious (fwd)

In your email to me, Alex Belits, you wrote:
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Subject:      Re: xterm segfaults from environment variables - too obvious
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On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, David Luyer wrote:

> Firstly, the bug.  What a joke.  A segfault from xterm this easily.
>
> Putting a large string into in LC_CTYPE or LANG will cause xterm from
> Debian-1.2.8 (the latest and supposedly stable and secure) Linux to
> segfault.

  This bug is fixed for x86 unices in XFree86 3.2 and for others in
X11R6.3. Or at least documentation and developers claim so. I have tested
it on XFree86 3.2, and it doesn't segfault xterm (while test program, of
course, gets its SIGSEGV). What versions of X and libc are in
Debian-1.2.8?

--
Alex


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