FYI - bash crash due to asprintf bug

[Eric Blake]

Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes:

> The full vulnerability is that on cygwin, any program that uses asprintf with 
> cygwin 1.5.22 or earlier, where the result of asprintf is a multiple of 4 but 
> not 8 and is greater than 1024, will corrupt the heap.

Oh, and I meant to add that one of these programs is gdb itself.  I found it 
rather interesting trying to debug the bash coredump when the debugger itself 
dumped core due to the same bug.

-- 
Eric Blake




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