[inbox] Re: [Full-Disclosure] RE: Linux (in)security

[Ted Unangst]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Brett Hutley wrote:

> char buf[10];
> const char *str1 = "OVER";
> const char *str2 = "FLOW!!!!!";
> sprintf(buf, "%s%s", str1, str2);
>
> Admittedly a contrived example. The best way to handle this type of
> stuff is to provide "safe" functions - like a sprintfn() that takes the
> maximum size of the buffer to write into as an argument. This function
> is reasonably tricky to write however. Consider the following example:

erm, snprintf?  the reasonably tricky to implement part is kinda true,
there are/were many implementations which didn't do the right thing, but i
think that's improved.


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