Re: possible buffer overflow by bad translation

From	Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: possible buffer overflow by bad translation
Date	2019-09-16 11:04 -0400
Message-ID	<mailman.357.1568646264.2190.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
References	<7e38edcd-b44f-3287-1406-c7353a74109b@gmx.de> <661901a6-7fa6-8a4f-5297-dc51e400174d@case.edu>

Show all headers | View raw

On 9/15/19 2:24 PM, Roland Illig wrote:
> From siglist.c:
> 
> 	  sys_siglist[i] =
> 	    (char *)xmalloc (10 + strlen (_("Unknown Signal #")));
> 
> 	  sprintf (sys_siglist[i], _("Unknown Signal #%d"), i);

I'll figure something out. This code is used in exceedingly rare
circumstances: where a system doesn't provide sys_siglist[] or
strsignal(). You probably haven't used one in years.

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
		 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

Back to gnu.bash.bug | Previous | Next | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Re: possible buffer overflow by bad translation Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2019-09-16 11:04 -0400

csiph-web