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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Wu Zhou <woodzltc@cn.ibm.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: about the usage of sprintf in gdb, specifically in gdb/remote.c
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 03:47:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <usm0ay7ph.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0505260226350.22654@plinuxt18.cn.ibm.com> (message from Wu Zhou on Thu, 26 May 2005 02:37:08 -0700 (PDT))

> Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 02:37:08 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Wu Zhou <woodzltc@cn.ibm.com>
> cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com,
>         mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl
> 
> BTW, what is your point on my analysis in section 3.1.  I believe
> it might incur an overflow.

I think so too.

> But I need to design a scenario to verify that.

That's my point exactly: you don't need to go to such lengths.  If it
isn't 100% obvious that no overflow is possible, we should remove
sprintf in favor of safer functions.


  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-26  3:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-25 13:00 Wu Zhou
2005-05-26  1:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-26  3:11   ` Wu Zhou
2005-05-26  3:47     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2005-05-26  6:37       ` Wu Zhou

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