URL:
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Summary: Fix use of uninitalized memory
Project: Gforth
Submitted by: jasperla
Submitted on: Wed 27 Jan 2016 08:10:28 AM GMT
Category: None
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: None
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
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Details:
OpenBSD's malloc(3) (see [1]) implementation allows for adding junk to the
allocated area (see options 'j' and 'J'). Through this it was discovered that
gforth_engine() was using uninitialized memory and would crash. The attached
patch resolves the issue.
1: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=malloc.conf
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Date: Wed 27 Jan 2016 08:10:28 AM GMT Name: patch-engine_engine_c Size: 853B
By: jasperla
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=36171>
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