On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 12:42:08AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > We _might_ be protected from buffer overrun errors [*1*], but we > would then end up operating on a truncated data -- which would > lead to an equally unexpected behaviour. I do not think there > is any guarantee that working with unexpectedly truncated data > leads to less severe security problems than buffer overruns with > careless sprintf(). But you can _check_ whether the data has been truncated. Just look at the return value of snprintf. skimo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Mon Sep 19 22:43:13 2005
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