On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 06:14:42PM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLA and replace it
> with dynamic memory allocation.
>
> From a security viewpoint, the use of Variable Length Arrays can be
> a vector for stack overflow attacks. Also, in general, as
On Tue, 2018-03-13 at 15:59 +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 04:58:38PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Mon, 2018-03-12 at 18:14 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> > > In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLA and replace it
> > > with dynamic memory allocation.
> > >
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 04:58:38PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-03-12 at 18:14 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> > In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLA and replace it
> > with dynamic memory allocation.
> >
> > From a security viewpoint, the use of Variable Length Arrays can
On Mon, 2018-03-12 at 18:14 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLA and replace it
> with dynamic memory allocation.
>
> From a security viewpoint, the use of Variable Length Arrays can be
> a vector for stack overflow attacks. Also, in general, as the
