[Python-Dev] mysnprintf broken (original) (raw)

Neil Schemenauer nas@python.ca
Sun, 25 Nov 2001 11:31:38 -0800

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The code uses vsprintf with a buffer that is 512 larger than ``n''. Obviously that is easy to overflow. Is there some reason why we can't incorporate a free snprintf implementation? There is a list available at http://www.ijs.si/software/snprintf/.

Neil

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