[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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