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Message-ID: <20120627100133.GA16786@openwall.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:01:33 +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 11:48:55AM +0200, magnum wrote:
> When/how would it read beyond bound? I don't get it.

salt() returns a pointer to a static variable for the salt.  The
compiler knows the size of this variable.  SALT_SIZE is larger.
bench.c and loader.c would memcpy() the larger size.  This is correctly
detected as read beyond bound.

Alexander

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