Hi Nick,
There isn't anything in the server to prevent the scenario that you
described, as far as I know.
-Phil
On 06/01/2010 12:57 PM, Nicholas Mills wrote:
Hey all,
Is there any code in place to prevent buffer overflows when decoding
server messages (requests and responses)? In particular I'm thinking
of the variable-length types like string that are prefixed with their
size. It seems to me that if the size is encoded incorrectly then
there is nothing to prevent the server from attempting to read past
the end of the request data.
Buffer overflows are a concern for me because I'm using the
encode/decode functions to serialize some security data. I'd like the
implementation to be as robust as possible; however, if the server
code itself doesn't protect against buffer overflows then there's not
much point to me adding it only to my code.
Thanks,
Nick
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