On 1/20/19 4:36 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> I've not analyzed the security concerns in detail, but in general
>> large allocations on the stack are bad for security
> 
> Indeed. Just reading this CVE [1] from a week ago, makes me want to
> disable all large allocations on the stack.

Yes please. Any chance to remove it from gettext.h ?

#if _LIBGETTEXT_HAVE_VARIABLE_SIZE_ARRAYS
  char msg_ctxt_id[msgctxt_len + msgid_len];
#else

> 
> Bruno
> 
> [1] https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/01/09/3

Regards, Tim

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