Hanno Böck <[email protected]> writes:

> I did a quick fuzzing test of the command line tools coming with nettle.
>
> echo "]"|sexp-conv
> will cause an abort call and
> echo "{MiM}"|sexp-conv
> causes an assert:

Thanks for the bug report. I'm investigating.

> usually abort/assert calls are debugging tools for situations in a
> software that should never happen on normal operations.

That's my intention too. For invalid invalid input data, the program
should terminate with a more-or-less friendly error message, not crash.
Assertion failures are always bugs.

Regards,
/Niels

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