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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: zsh 5.0.5-dev-2
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 10:30:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <140817103030.ZM12944@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140816003504.GB17063@localhost.localdomain>

On Aug 16,  8:35am, Han Pingtian wrote:
}
} I have tried PATH_MAX*3 and PATH_MAX*3 - 1, they both can fix the
} buffer overflow here. I also tried PATH_MAX*2 + 1/2/3, they don't 
} fix this problem. 

I suspect Fortify is reporting a potential error rather than a real
one, because we'd presumably have seen other problems before this if
"cd .." actually caused an 8kb buffer on the stack to overflow.

The whole symlink-chasing code is probably ripe to be rewritten with
zsh-heap (or even malloc + static pointers) allocation unless we have
reason to beleive that's a serious performance issue.

For the nonce I'll just commit xbuf2[PATH_MAX*3].

-- 
Barton E. Schaefer


  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-17 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-12 20:29 Peter Stephenson
2014-08-12 22:36 ` Axel Beckert
2014-08-13 14:04   ` zsh 5.0.5-dev-2 / Occassional hangs on Test/A05execution.ztst Axel Beckert
2014-08-13 19:08     ` Bart Schaefer
2014-08-14  8:48       ` Axel Beckert
2014-08-14  8:50       ` Peter Stephenson
2014-08-14 16:25         ` Bart Schaefer
2014-08-14 16:31           ` Axel Beckert
2014-08-14 17:34             ` Axel Beckert
2014-08-15  4:50               ` Bart Schaefer
2014-08-15  9:32                 ` Axel Beckert
2014-08-15 17:33                   ` Bart Schaefer
2014-08-15 19:42                     ` Axel Beckert
2014-08-16 18:12                       ` zsh 5.0.5/6 Peter Stephenson
2014-08-13 17:28   ` zsh 5.0.5-dev-2 Dominic Hopf
2014-08-13 22:34 ` Oliver Kiddle
2014-08-14  8:34   ` Peter Stephenson
2014-08-14  9:32     ` Peter Stephenson
2014-08-14 16:20       ` Bart Schaefer
2014-08-14 19:54         ` Peter Stephenson
2014-08-15  4:44           ` Bart Schaefer
2014-08-15  8:38             ` Peter Stephenson
2014-08-15 11:23             ` Han Pingtian
2014-08-15 17:17               ` Bart Schaefer
2014-08-16  0:35                 ` Han Pingtian
2014-08-17 17:30                   ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2014-08-18  2:56                     ` Han Pingtian
2014-08-18  6:36                       ` Bart Schaefer
2014-08-18 14:02                         ` Han Pingtian
2014-08-23 17:51                     ` Symlink chasing Peter Stephenson

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