Re: Malloc and security

2012-06-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ben Hutchings writes: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 09:25:51PM +0100, Jamie White wrote: >> Hiya >> >> Just a quick question, which malloc, is there anyway that this >> function (used in C) could allocate memory into already allocated >> memory, such as the stack - or code space! > > Assuming that

Re: Malloc and security

2012-06-19 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 09:38:15PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 09:25:51PM +0100, Jamie White wrote: > > Hiya > > > > Just a quick question, which malloc, is there anyway that this > > function (used in C) could allocate memory into already allocated > > memory, such as th

Re: Malloc and security

2012-06-18 Thread Jamie White
: Dmitrijs Ledkovs To: ja...@jatos.co.uk Subject: Re: Malloc and security Sent: 18 Jun 2012 21:45 sent an apology to the debian-devel. There are two identical emails to debian-devel ~10mins apart or so. On 18/06/12 21:44, ja...@jatos.co.uk wrote: I am not quite sure how it ended on Ubuntu deve

Re: Malloc and security

2012-06-18 Thread jamie
bject: Re: Malloc and security On 18/06/12 21:11, Jamie White wrote: > Hiya > > Just a quick question, which malloc, is there anyway that this function > (used in C) could allocate memory into already allocated memory, such as > the stack - or code space! > > Jamie > >

Re: Malloc and security

2012-06-18 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 18/06/12 21:25, Jamie White wrote: > Hiya > > Just a quick question, which malloc, is there anyway that this function > (used in C) could allocate memory into already allocated memory, such as > the stack - or code space! > > Jamie > > sorry, not to two mailing lists. to the same one twice i

Re: Malloc and security

2012-06-18 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 18/06/12 21:11, Jamie White wrote: > Hiya > > Just a quick question, which malloc, is there anyway that this function > (used in C) could allocate memory into already allocated memory, such as > the stack - or code space! > > Jamie > > Cross posting offtopic email to two mailing lists (ubun

Re: Malloc and security

2012-06-18 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 09:25:51PM +0100, Jamie White wrote: > Just a quick question, which malloc, is there anyway that this > function (used in C) could allocate memory into already allocated > memory, such as the stack - or code space! The debian-devel mailing list is meant for development _of_

Re: Malloc and security

2012-06-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 09:25:51PM +0100, Jamie White wrote: > Hiya > > Just a quick question, which malloc, is there anyway that this > function (used in C) could allocate memory into already allocated > memory, such as the stack - or code space! Assuming that the program uses memory correctly,

Malloc and security

2012-06-18 Thread Jamie White
Hiya Just a quick question, which malloc, is there anyway that this function (used in C) could allocate memory into already allocated memory, such as the stack - or code space! Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Malloc and security

2012-06-18 Thread Jamie White
Hiya Just a quick question, which malloc, is there anyway that this function (used in C) could allocate memory into already allocated memory, such as the stack - or code space! Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?