Re: mp4h: Strange? segfault problem

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org>]

Svante Signell, le Thu 29 Dec 2011 08:46:22 +0100, a écrit :
> 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,

Sure, we've never doubted it :)

Samuel