Re: problem with GNU C

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>]

Previously Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> And yes, a single byte may be enough to crash a program.  Indeed I
> think I recall a BUGTRAQ posting where someone managed to exploit a
> security hole with a single byte overrun.

Yup, but that did rely on having other input available in memory
as well. It definitely was very cool.

Wichert.

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