Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 08:48:47 +0400 From: Andrey Chernov <ache@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Trevor Blackwell <tlb@tlb.org>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/86135: Fwd: Latent buffer overflow in getcwd Message-ID: <20050915044847.GA26955@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <20050915043553.GA26630@nagual.pp.ru> References: <1126728802.42486.3239.camel@lab> <20050915120351.Q43928@delplex.bde.org> <20050915043553.GA26630@nagual.pp.ru>
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On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 08:35:53AM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote: > While it can be so for "up", it is not so for "ep", since it is > filled by __getcwd() syscall and can't be bigger. I mean common normal situation, i.e. when __getcwd() returns 0. Allocating anything else than MAXPATHLEN in that situation will be a waste. -- http://ache.pp.ru/
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