From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: Demetrios Obenour <demetriobenour@gmail.com>,
'Paul Eggert' <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
'Stefan Monnier' <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 18410@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18410: Use SAFE_ALLOCA etc. to avoid unbounded stack allocation.
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 20:19:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <540D2054.4000909@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <020201cfcb13$6d851890$488f49b0$@gmail.com>
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On 09/07/2014 08:17 PM, Demetrios Obenour wrote:
> This is crucial. Otherwise, a security vulnerability could result.
>
> MAX_ALLOCA should not be larger than the page size for the target architecture.
You could just touch every page inside a large alloca.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-08 3:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-05 6:08 bug#18410: Use SAFE_ALLOCA etc. to avoid unbounded stack allocation Paul Eggert
2014-09-05 8:45 ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-09-05 15:01 ` Paul Eggert
2014-09-05 15:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-05 16:04 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-09-05 17:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-05 8:59 ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-09-05 15:03 ` Paul Eggert
2014-09-07 7:20 ` Paul Eggert
2014-09-07 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-07 20:33 ` Paul Eggert
2014-09-08 2:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-08 2:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-08 2:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-08 2:38 ` Paul Eggert
2014-09-08 3:17 ` Demetrios Obenour
2014-09-08 3:19 ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2014-09-08 3:20 ` Demetrios Obenour
2014-09-08 7:26 ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-09-08 2:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-08 12:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-09 13:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-09 13:49 ` Stefan Monnier
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