misc/80536: ispell/spell seg faults on command line parsing

gil pr0ggy at cox.net
Mon May 2 05:00:28 PDT 2005


>Number:         80536
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       ispell/spell seg faults on command line parsing
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon May 02 12:00:23 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     gil
>Release:        5.3
>Organization:
pr0ger security
>Environment:
FreeBSD eXploit 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #1: Wed Apr 27 19:40:16 PDT 2005     pr0ger at eXploit.lv.cox.net:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/BSDBOX  i386

>Description:
If you give a random option to the "spell" command in a terminal the program segmentation faults and dumps core, If you open the core file in gdb it shows that the program seg faulted at fgets(). Which this shouldnt happen...
>How-To-Repeat:
-bash-2.05b$ spell something_random_here
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
-bash-2.05b$
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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