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From: | Bruno Haible |
Subject: | Re: glibc segfault on "special" long double values is _ok_!? |
Date: | Thu, 7 Jun 2007 03:50:10 +0200 |
User-agent: | KMail/1.5.4 |
Andreas Schwab wrote: > > 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? Common knowledge: Programmers know that NULL is an invalid value for many operations. They usually don't know that there are invalid values in the 'long double' data type (unlike the 'float' and 'double' data types). Bruno
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