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binutils: buffer overflow

binutils: buffer overflow

Posted Aug 24, 2006 18:15 UTC (Thu) by ernest (subscriber, #2355)
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this is ridiculous. if a user can tricked to compile a specialy crafted program you do not need a buffer overflow to create a program that can do bad things. For god's sack! please re-read what you have just written!


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binutils: buffer overflow

Posted Aug 25, 2006 16:04 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I thought this once, but it's wrong. Consider programs that assemble code to be run on another machine, especially things like cross-assemblers. You don't expect to have to nail down a system that merely *compiles* untrusted code (assuming the build system is trusted).

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