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Subject: bin/2591: sh has problems with argv length
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>Number:         2591
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       sh coredumps when passing an argv of a certain length
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jan 25 21:00:01 PST 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     cgull@smoke.marlboro.vt.us
>Organization:
none
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.0-970118-SNAP i386
>Environment:

root or user login, default dotfiles distributed with 3.0

>Description:

/bin/sh coredumps when asked to pass a large argv.  A trace also shows
sh attempting to stat an envar list.  (see
ftp://smoke.marlboro.vt.us/pub/cgull/testgoo/sh-trace)

This may be related to exec'ing shellscripts.

>How-To-Repeat:

$ zgrep ALLMULTI /usr/man/man1/*
$ zgrep ALLMULTI /usr/man/man?/*
[core dump]

or to get a duplicate of my argv,

$ fetch ftp://smoke.marlboro.vt.us/pub/cgull/testgoo/arglist
$ zgrep `cat arglist`
[core dump]

>Fix:
	
unknown


>Audit-Trail:
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