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Re: [bug-gettext] intl: Proof against invalid offset/length
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: Daiki Ueno <ueno at gnu dot org>, "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Bruno Haible <bruno at clisp dot org>, bug-gettext at gnu dot org, Jakub Wilk <jwilk at debian dot org>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 10:10:09 +0100
- Subject: Re: [bug-gettext] intl: Proof against invalid offset/length
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On 03/20/2015 02:06 AM, Daiki Ueno wrote:
> I agree. Now that intl/ is almost[1] synchronized with gettext, what's
> blocking this? I'm happy to include the patch in the upcoming gettext
> release so non-glibc consumers also benefit from it.
The patch will use getauxval(AT_SECURE) or __libc_enable_secure (or
issetuugid on other systems, but which I cannot test). It is not going
to be very portable.
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