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Re: [patch] Fix for heap overflow in wscanf (BZ 16618)
- From: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov at google dot com>
- To: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
- Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>, Rich Felker <dalias at libc dot org>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 08:06:24 -0800
- Subject: Re: [patch] Fix for heap overflow in wscanf (BZ 16618)
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On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
>> So, how about the attached (untested) patch to vfscanf.c instead? It's
>> simpler. It does rely on realloc (wp, SIZE_MAX) returning NULL, but that's
>> safe in glibc.
>
> I like it. Re-tested.
>
> Combined patch attached.
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Paul Pluzhnikov