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Re: [Bug-readline] heap-buffer-overflow in update_line


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: [Bug-readline] heap-buffer-overflow in update_line
Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 09:08:11 -0400
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On 5/23/19 3:28 PM, Tom de Vries wrote:

> I did a further test-run to see if the original problem (PR24514 -
> heap-buffer-overflow in update_line for utf8-identifiers.exp:
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24514 ) was fixed, which
> turned out not to be the case.
> 
> I've analyzed this, and found it to be caused by the
> init_line_structures part of the patch changing line_size, which does
> not force a reallloc. I've fixed this by changing minsize instead.

Thanks for the analysis and updated patch.

Chet

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