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[Bug stdio/13656] vfprintf nargs integer overflow


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13656

--- Comment #4 from Tomas Hoger <thoger at redhat dot com> 2012-03-06 14:42:32 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> Tomas, could you or Laszlo bring this up on libc-alpha, please?

This was posted in:
  http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-03/msg00101.html

Replies indicate it is preferred to limit nargs by available memory rather than
using an arbitrary limit, i.e. what Kees' patch was doing already.

Related commit links for posterity:

http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=7c1f4834d398163d1ac8101e35e9c36fc3176e6e
http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=fa0355175d60ccf610c98f2345504603d3b8ea57

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