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Message-ID: <20120627094115.GA16660@openwall.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:41:15 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: SSH format crashes when built using "linux-x86-clang-debug"

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:37:01AM +0200, magnum wrote:
> On 2012-06-27 11:27, Dhiru Kholia wrote:
> > The actual size of "static struct custom_salt cs" might be less than
> > defined SALT_SIZE. Will this cause a problem? It this the cause behind
> > the crashes?
> 
> As long as it's not larger it's not much of a problem.

Yet it may be causing crashes in builds with bound-checking compilers
(read beyond bounds).  Dhiru's patch should fix that.

Alexander

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