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Re: daily: vim problem again


From: Paul Dufresne
Subject: Re: daily: vim problem again
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 23:52:08 -0500
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---- Le ven., 26 févr. 2021 23:29:01 -0500 Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@debian.org> 
écrit ----
>  
 > I'd advise you to not delve too deeply into malloc. This is likely a 
 > buffer overflow that then corrupts the (inline) state maintained by 
 > malloc, so you really need to be looking at vim. 
 >  
 > Jess 

I have an idea.
I could replace the assert by a printf of the address of the pointer.

Then if I could generate a map of vim, I could figure out approximately that 
the buffer overflowing is just before that address?

Frankly, not knowing exactly what I am doing... ;-)




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