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Re: [PATCH] Fix integer overflows in internal memalign and malloc functions [BZ #22343]

From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, Arjun Shankar <arjun dot is at lostca dot se>
Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 22:27:12 -0800
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix integer overflows in internal memalign and malloc functions [BZ #22343]
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References: <20180104170250.GA72870@aloka.lostca.se> <7e9c6bd0-ddb8-72fa-4cde-6597c3d8641e@cs.ucla.edu> <0cffc8c3-bbd9-2a3b-8246-5d9d8a5d72f7@redhat.com> <20180116162714.GA36913@aloka.lostca.se> <4976edfa-7e4d-04c5-b451-f1b2c02f7c5a@redhat.com>

Carlos O'Donell wrote:

I think an immediate fix is the right solution for 2.27, these overflows in
malloc are bad.

Yes, that sounds right to me too. Though we really need to fix the more-generalproblem in the not-too-distant future.

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- Re: [PATCH] Fix integer overflows in internal memalign and malloc functions [BZ #22343]
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- Re: [PATCH] Fix integer overflows in internal memalign and malloc functions [BZ #22343]
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