Hi all...

did I just find the shortest code to crash WF?

'%00'

Originally it came form:

-SET &WILDCARD = '%00'; 

But the first code is enough to get an unexplained 'ACCESS DENIED'.

Yes, it's some URL encode stuff I know. Still weird.


Greets,Dave

Interesting. Might be release specific. All I got was:

 (FOC1517) UNRECOGNIZED COMMAND %00 

quote:

-SET &WILDCARD = '%00';

Interesting,

No Issues with 8.1.04 or 8.2.04

I can only assume that the %00 is being decoded in the call.

One time we had WF crash because '-*' did not start in column 1.

quote:

One time we had WF crash because '-*'

That must have been a long time ago.

Waz, it was. Probably 5-6 years ago. We also had an instance where the agent would hang and start consuming all available memory on the Reporting Server when MODIFY did not generate a syntax error when a ON MATCH COMPUTE was missing the trailing ';'. IBI reproduced the error and fixed it. This was just 4 years ago. Sometimes it doesn't take much for WebFOCUS to lose its mind.

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Sometimes it doesn't take much for WebFOCUS to lose its mind.

Hence Code Tightening (I hope)