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From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
To: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: PATCH: Fix buffer overflow in gas
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 13:31:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060502133130.GB10201@lucon.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44572AAF.4080203@redhat.com>

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 10:47:27AM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi H. J.
> 
> >There are some potential buffer overflows in gas. 8byte isn't enough
> >to hold a negative byte. This patch fixes them. Also we should use
> >snprintf instead of sprintf.
> 
> Did you test this patch ?  if so, please could you say how.

You can put some none ascii char in assembly code.

> 
> >2006-05-01  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
> >
> >	* config/tc-i386.c (output_invalid_buf): Change size to 16.
> >	* config/tc-tic30.c (output_invalid_buf): Likewise.
> >
> >	* config/tc-i386.c (output_invalid): Use snprintf instead of
> >	sprintf.
> >	* config/tc-ia64.c (declare_register_set): Likewise.
> >	(emit_one_bundle): Likewise.
> >	(check_dependencies): Likewise.
> >	* config/tc-tic30.c (output_invalid): Likewise.
> 
> Assuming that you have tested the targets involved and that there were 
> no regressions then this patch is approved.

Done.


H.J.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-02 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-01 18:40 H. J. Lu
2006-05-02  9:48 ` Nick Clifton
2006-05-02 13:31   ` H. J. Lu [this message]
2006-05-02 14:20     ` H. J. Lu
2006-05-02 14:35       ` Jan Beulich
2006-05-02 14:58         ` H. J. Lu
2006-05-02 16:53           ` Andreas Schwab

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