On 04/13/2014 06:23 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Roger wrote: > >> It happened. It was known for years. > Everything I have seen says it has been known for about 1 week. > > Incidentally, I am no programmer but I would have thought > it would be relatively simple to set up a test > to see if a "malloc"-ed space could be transgressed. > There have been tools for this for many years. Rational Purify is one tool that used to test for that. The problem here is that the tools that test for buffer overflow also are time consuming. A "Purified" program was several times larger and slower than the bare code. You use tools like Purify to test your code, but not for production code. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
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