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Bug#2047: grep segfaults when abused



PACKAGE: grep
VERSION: 2.0-3

This might qualify as unwarranted abuse.  However, since I stumbled
across it, I thought I'd report it.

Script started on Mon Dec 18 21:15:01 1995
root:/root# grep trash /proc/kcore
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
root:/root# exit
Script done on Mon Dec 18 21:15:19 1995

/proc/kcore is 16MB on my system.  However, this doesn't seem to be
due to file size (I tried "cat /usr/bin/* | od | grep trash" and didn't
provoke a segfault).

mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell)



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