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The ups and downs of strlcpy()

The ups and downs of strlcpy()

Posted Jul 20, 2012 13:25 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: The ups and downs of strlcpy() by cmccabe
Parent article: The ups and downs of strlcpy()

DoS is much preferable to complete pwning. And the point is, abort()-ing means that there would have been a buffer overflow more likely than not.


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