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Glibc change exposing bugs

Glibc change exposing bugs

Posted Nov 11, 2010 0:50 UTC (Thu) by MattPerry (guest, #46341)
In reply to: Glibc change exposing bugs by lmb
Parent article: Glibc change exposing bugs

> That behavior is undefined makes one only right as far as technicality
> is concerned;

But it is defined. The man page says not to use that function on overlapping regions. That applications ignored that and still functioned for so long is more a matter of good luck. That luck has run out due to their poor implementations and they should now be fixed.


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