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Re: [Chicken-users] [SECURITY] Fix buffer overrun in substring-index[-ci


From: Moritz Heidkamp
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] [SECURITY] Fix buffer overrun in substring-index[-ci]
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 17:11:37 +0100

Moritz Heidkamp <address@hidden> writes:

> the substring-index[-ci] procedures of the data-structures unit are
> vulnerable to a buffer overrun attack when passed an integer greater
> than zero as the optional START argument.

Forgot to mention: As a work-around you can switch to SRFI 13's
string-contains procedure which also returns the substring's index in
case it is found.

Moritz

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