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Message-ID: <CANO7a6xj4HBYE8vYaizSADK5o0bO9wJhwtSRRH-fCRtsL76rNQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:22:12 +0530
From: Dhiru Kholia <dhiru.kholia@...il.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 3:18 PM, magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com> wrote:
> When/how would it read beyond bound? I don't get it. Anyway, it is
> applied. I just now also applied a little "unsused variable" fix for
> non-OMP.

On 32-bit machine the size of custom_salt was something like 4152
bytes. However SALT_SIZE was declared to be 4224. When JtR was saving
the salt, it accessed memory not belonging to custom_salt which lead
to asan crashes.

-- 
Cheers,
Dhiru

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