On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
<[email protected]> wrote:
> ""OpenSSL has exploit mitigation countermeasures to make sure its
> exploitable"" http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/211963
>
> Leaving aside the personal (and questionable) opinions from Theo about
> OpenSSL developers, I think he is right about that this malloc wrapper
> looks quite bad.
>
> Probably without it the heartbleed bug won't have caused so much havoc,
> or would have been detected earlier by some debugger.
>
> What's the stance of openssl developers on this? Will you get rid of
> this wrapper?

Or maybe, make it optional, and allow 2 different builds i.e one with
the in-built malloc for performance, and the other one that allows a
package maintainer to use the system's malloc.



>
>
> Regards!
>



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