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Re: [patch] Fix for heap overflow in wscanf (BZ 16618)
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov at google dot com>
- Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>, Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>, Rich Felker <dalias at libc dot org>, GLIBC Devel <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 10:29:56 -0500
- Subject: Re: [patch] Fix for heap overflow in wscanf (BZ 16618)
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On 02/06/2015 10:19 AM, Paul Pluzhnikov wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 6:45 AM, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 02/06/2015 08:45 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
>>> I think this fixes as CVE-2015-1473 as well,
>
> Correct.
>
Could you expand a bit on this comment? Did you test that it fixes the issue?
Did you review that it's actually the same bug?
I trust your review, but "Correct." is not sufficiently verbose for me and
I want to make sure we're all in agreement.
Cheers,
Carlos.