[patch] Fix for heap overflow in wscanf (BZ 16618)
Andreas Schwab
schwab@suse.de
Wed Feb 4 08:39:00 GMT 2015
Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> writes:
> Interesting. Unfortunately this makes it impossible for the
> application to observe the "valid memory was unable to be freed"
> condition that occurs when you can't split a vma.
Just like today (not reliably anyway).
Andreas.
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