Re: mp4h: Strange? segfault problem
On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 22:01 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Svante Signell, le Wed 28 Dec 2011 11:26:37 +0100, a écrit :
> > On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 10:33 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > Svante Signell, le Wed 28 Dec 2011 10:17:24 +0100, a écrit :
> >
> > Ok, this comparison was maybe not the best. The main problem remains,
> > for Hurd, how can a too short path string overwrite the environment
> > vector of strings?
>
> Because the environment is just after main's arguments.
The conclusion still holds: realpath is potentially dangerous, it should
either be used with a resolved_path length of PATH_MAX=4096, if defined
or NULL, if not defined. An argument of NULL is equivalent to using
canonicalize_file_name (if _GNU_SOURCE is defined)
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