Re: [dev] Re: [st] [PATCH] Avoid buffer overflows in the case of key-mapped strings.

From: Alexander S. <alex0player_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 16:50:39 +0400

2013/10/9 Roberto E. Vargas Caballero <k0ga_AT_shike2.com>:
> I think we shouldn't check this kind of things, because otherwise
> we must check all the parameters from config.h, and it is not done now.
> I usually check all the parameters which come from the user, and trust
> parameters from the own code, because they are my responsability (or in
> this case, is responsability of the user who modified config.h)
It's runtime segfault (that may be rare and hard to catch) that is
worth exactly one additional check.
Received on Thu Oct 10 2013 - 14:50:39 CEST