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Message-ID: <20121210073203.GA1141@openwall.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:32:03 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: fixing the valid() methods
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:55:40PM +0530, Dhiru Kholia wrote:
> The first line of valid involves a strdup call.
That's a problem. You should do the strncmp() first, and only if it
returns a match proceed to allocate memory. (Better yet, you should
not be allocating any memory there at all.)
Alexander
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