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From:
Andy Lester
Date:
September 13, 2016 18:29
Subject:
Re: [perl #129267] Possible string overrun with invalid len in gv.c
Message ID:
F7DABE8D-730D-49C7-ACA5-ACE3810F4582@petdance.com

> On Sep 13, 2016, at 1:25 PM, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I did not search for other examples. I thought it might be best to
> > open a discussion before proceeding on any work.
> 
> Not sure what there is to discuss really.  Wrong is wrong. ☺️
> 


I took the comment to mean “For all I know, there may be other examples elsewhere in the codebase, and it might even be a security hole, but I haven’t investigated further, but someone probably should before we just patch this and call it done."

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Andy Lester => www.petdance.com


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