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Re: Unsolicited GNU bc patch



On Sat, Aug 06, 2022 at 05:12:13AM +0000, Thomas DiModica wrote:
> Yes, I keep spamming this trying to find an appropriate mailing list. I don't
> remember how or why I initially stumbled across this bug report
> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bc/+bug/1775776), but, given that
> I have some familiarity with GNU bc, I decided to fix some of the issues.
> Turns out, this also seems to fix the crashes reported here
> (https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/11/28/1). I think it would
> be a lot more useful to share this, as there isn't a lot to review. There are
> three bug fixes and some self-defensive checks in the runtime for malformed
> bytecode. Address Sanitizer tells me that these previously invalid memory
> references now just leak memory. I don't appear to have broken anything in the
> process, either. I'm not a member of any Debian mailing list, but I will try
> to watch for responses.
Please send such patches upstream.


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