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Re: lib/46781: statically compiled bash makes locale loading fail



The following reply was made to PR lib/46781; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, lib-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, 
        gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, 
cfuhrman%panix.com@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: lib/46781: statically compiled bash makes locale loading fail
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 07:07:34 -0400

 On Aug 8, 10:50am, martin%duskware.de@localhost (Martin Husemann) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: lib/46781: statically compiled bash makes locale loading fail
 
 | The following reply was made to PR lib/46781; it has been noted by GNATS.
 | 
 | From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
 | To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 | Cc: 
 | Subject: Re: lib/46781: statically compiled bash makes locale loading fail
 | Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 12:45:32 +0200
 | 
 |  On closer inspection it looks like indeed the rune loading code writes
 |  past the end of the allocated block.
 
 The way the loader is written is antiquated, complicated, and error prone. 
 It will be extremely difficult to add tests to easily prove that the code
 does not have buffer overflow errors on specially crafted input.
 
 christos
 


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