From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
To: "Pádraig Brady" <P@draigbrady.com>
Cc: James Youngman <james@youngman.org>,
Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>,
bug-gnulib@gnu.org
Subject: Re: VLA and alloca
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 16:36:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4425313.A21oZ5zyQ0@omega> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2f26e4a4-c899-686c-473c-2c7773fff14b@draigBrady.com>
Pádraig Brady wrote:
> I've not analyzed the security concerns in detail, but in general
> large allocations on the stack are bad for security
Indeed. Just reading this CVE [1] from a week ago, makes me want to
disable all large allocations on the stack.
Bruno
[1] https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/01/09/3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-20 15:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-09 22:32 Correct but unhelpful VLA warning vs. gnulib's gettext.h; can we eliminate the false positive? James Youngman
2011-07-10 4:47 ` Paul Eggert
2011-07-10 9:16 ` James Youngman
2011-07-11 0:11 ` Paul Eggert
2011-07-11 1:02 ` James Youngman
2011-07-11 1:13 ` Paul Eggert
2011-07-10 9:48 ` Simon Josefsson
2019-01-14 6:10 ` Pádraig Brady
2019-01-15 1:57 ` VLA and alloca Bruno Haible
2019-01-20 4:46 ` Pádraig Brady
2019-01-20 10:19 ` Bruno Haible
2019-01-20 21:03 ` Pádraig Brady
2019-02-02 22:44 ` Paul Eggert
2019-01-20 15:36 ` Bruno Haible [this message]
2019-01-24 11:51 ` Tim Rühsen
2019-02-02 22:58 ` Paul Eggert
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