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Re: glibc segfault on "special" long double values is _ok_!?
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: glibc segfault on "special" long double values is _ok_!? |
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Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:21:53 +0200 |
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Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
> Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm interested, because I don't want my applications to segfault on such
>>>>> inputs. Sure it may look a little far-fetched, but I think it's not.
>>>>> Imagine such a bit pattern being injected into a network data stream
>>>>> that is then printed as a long double. Just printing an arbitrary
>>>>> "long double" should not make a server vulnerable to a DoS attack.
>>>>
>>>> In which way is this different from passing NULL to strlen?
>>>
>>> I'm surprised to hear you arguing that it is desirable for glibc's printf
>>> implementation to segfault for a long-double with an unusual bit pattern.
>>
>> In which way is this different from printf("%s", (char*)1)?
>
> Posing the question for printf("%s", NULL) wouldn't have made
> the same point, Eh?
You still did not answer my questions.
Andreas.
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Re: glibc segfault on "special" long double values is _ok_!?, James Youngman, 2007/06/06
- Re: glibc segfault on "special" long double values is _ok_!?, Jan-Benedict Glaw, 2007/06/07
- Re: glibc segfault on "special" long double values is _ok_!?, Jakub Jelinek, 2007/06/07
- Re: glibc segfault on "special" long double values is _ok_!?, Mike Frysinger, 2007/06/07
- Re: glibc segfault on "special" long double values is _ok_!?, Jan-Benedict Glaw, 2007/06/07
- Re: glibc segfault on "special" long double values is _ok_!?, Mike Frysinger, 2007/06/07
- Re: glibc segfault on "special" long double values is _ok_!?, Jan-Benedict Glaw, 2007/06/07