Escape stack overflow in noux_bash

emery at ...261... emery at ...261...
Wed Mar 2 10:03:14 CET 2016


On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 05:21:23PM -0800, Gregory Disney wrote:
> Hey,
> This seems to be a escape stack overflow, which crashes the kernel. All
> that a user has to run cat tmp/bblub, which I believe is a link to
> /ram/tmp/bblub to cause the overflow.

An 'escape stack overflow' isn't too serious, the terminal has a fixed
size buffer of terminal escape sequences and it can't keep up when it
gets the random assortment of escape characters in /tmp/bblub.

But if it is crashing the terminal or something else then that would
be bad.

Emery

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