Weird problem with vi... "Not that many lines in buffer"

[John B. Milton]

In article <132 at conrad.UUCP> sac at conrad.UUCP (Steven A. Conrad) writes:
>In article <508 at icus.islp.ny.us> Lenny Tropiano writes:
...

This does make one think, now that everone knows that this can be done!
HP took care of it in their vi, you just can't do it; no switch to enable or
anything. It is indeed a big security hole. NEVER vi a user file from root,
you never know what might be in it! Below is a program "vick", which will
scan stdin or a list of files for these commands. It only looks at the first
four and the last four lines, and for ex, ei, vi and vx. The command passed to
vi seems to be from the : after "vi" to the LAST colon on the line. If you are
not using this on a UNIXpc, check your local vi and tune it accordingly.
Always look for strange vi behavior, it can come from: the environment variable
EXINIT, from ./.exrc, /.exrc, these imbedded vi:: commands, functions and 
aliases picked up here and there, weirdness from shelling out of other programs.

P.S. HP correctly fixed the problem with a :set modelines defaulted to no

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/* vi:set ai sm ts=2 sw=2: */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

extern int errno;
extern int optind;
extern char *optarg;

#define VIMAXLINESIZE 1000

static char *me,Verbose=0;

void perrorf(format,a1,a2,a3,a4,a5,a6,a7,a8,a9)
char *format,*a1,*a2,*a3,*a4,*a5,*a6,*a7,*a8,*a9;
{
	char line[200];

	sprintf(line,format,a1,a2,a3,a4,a5,a6,a7,a8,a9);
	perror(line);
}

static int HasExCmd(s)
char *s;
{ /* sort of-> [ev][ix]:.*: */
	int i;
	char *colon;

	if ((colon=strchr(s,':'))==NULL)
		return(0); /* no colon */
	if (colon-s<2)
		return(0); /* colon too close to beginning to have vi */
	colon--;
	if (*colon!='i' && *colon!='x')
		return(0); /* character before : is not i|x */
	colon--;
	if (*colon!='v' && *colon!='e')
		return(0); /* character before : is not v|e */
	if (strchr(colon+3,':')==NULL)
		return(0); /* no second colon, command ignored */
	else {
		if (Verbose) {
			fputs(s,stdout);
			for (i=0; i<colon-s; i++)
				putchar(' ');
			puts("^");
		}
		return(1); /* GOT ONE! */
	}
}

static int filt(f)
FILE *f;
{
	int i;
	long int l=0;
	char line[4][VIMAXLINESIZE];

	while (fgets(line[l%4],VIMAXLINESIZE,f)!=NULL) {
		if (l<4 && HasExCmd(line[l%4])) /* will ALWAYS eval left to right! */
			return(1);
		l++;
	}
	if (l>4)
		for (i=l-4; i<l; i++)
			if (i>=4)
				if (HasExCmd(line[i%4]))
					return(1);
	return(0);
}

static char *usage="Usage: %s\n";

int main(argc,argv)
int argc;
char *argv[];
{
	int bad=0,i,opt;
	FILE *f;

	me=argv[0];
	while ((opt=getopt(argc,argv,"v?"))!=EOF)
		switch (opt) {
			case 'v':
				Verbose=1;
				break;
			case '?':
			default:
				fprintf(stderr,usage,me);
				exit(1);
				break;
		}
	if (argc==optind)
		bad+=filt(stdin);
	else
		for (i=optind; i<argc; i++)
			if ((f=fopen(argv[i],"r"))==NULL)
				perrorf("%s: open %s for reading",me,argv[i]);
			else {
				bad+=filt(f);
				fclose(f);
			}
	return(bad);
}

John
-- 
John Bly Milton IV, jbm at uncle.UUCP, n8emr!uncle!jbm at osu-cis.cis.ohio-state.edu
home (614) 294-4823, work (614) 764-4272; ei:wq!: (isn't vi fun?)