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Comment by titzer

> This meant that by sending a ResponseKey message with an AES-encrypted <encoded> element of more than 1024 bytes, it was possible to overflow a heap buffer.

This is what I was looking for. Fundamental bug was an overflow of statically-allocated buffer leading to heap corruption.

We gotta get off memory-unsafe languages.

parent titzer 5 years ago

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