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Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:20:43 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: SSH format crashes when built using "linux-x86-clang-debug"

On 2012-06-27 12:01, Solar Designer wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:48:55AM +0200, magnum wrote:
>> When/how would it read beyond bound? I don't get it.
> 
> salt() returns a pointer to a static variable for the salt.  The
> compiler knows the size of this variable.  SALT_SIZE is larger.
> bench.c and loader.c would memcpy() the larger size.  This is correctly
> detected as read beyond bound.

OK. But this had nothing to do with the crashes, right?

magnum

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